Straw poll: what age were you diagnosed?

[Northerner]

I was diagnosed type 2 aged 25, changed to type 1 aged 28.

It would be very interesting to hear what happened sparklestar - several of our members have had similar experiences 🙂 Hope you are well.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Massive thanks to everyone who responded to my straw poll a while back.

If you are curious about what I found - you can read a writeup/see the results here: http://www.everydayupsanddowns.co.uk/2012/12/unusual-suspects-age-at-diagnosis.html

 

[nozza]

type 2 age 53

 

[robofski]

Very interesting results Mike. I was surprised by the low number of type 2's dx in the 18-34 range, but I also think that the 'mild diabetes' label probably does mean a number of type 2 don't get involved in online forums about diabetes, I know I certainly didn't when I was type 2!

 

[Mark T]

It would be interesting to break the data out by year, rather then batches of years.

But some interesting data there.

 

[AlisonM]

T2 at 52 and T1.5 six months later.

 

[Mark T]

You might want to also compare the date of slide 5 of this presentation: http://www.diabetesgenes.org/sites/default/files/ATHtalk.PPT.

Predominately it's about diagnosing MODY but it seems someone had sketched out a fairly interesting type vs age of diagnosis chart.

It is taken from this page: http://www.diabetesgenes.org/content/maturity-onset-diabetes-young which is part of the Diabetes Genes research at Exeter.

 

[MichaelB]

T1 - aged 42

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Thanks for those still offering data - just to be clear I'm no longer collecting it (because of the anonymous way it was collected from multiple streams it would be very difficult to add more entries in at this stage).

Resurrecting this thread was more to share the results of the initial info.

Thnaks though 🙂