By the numbers
Let’s say I have one dollar. Hey, it could happen.
Now let us assume that it is in pennies. So now I have 100 pennies spread out in front of me.
Take five out and set them aside. That’s me and my kind. The Type-1 cents.
Now take out eight more pennies out and set them over there. Those are the Type-2 cents.
Now take out take out twenty five more and put them, oh, I don’t know, over there on the right somewhere. According to new numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control a few weeks ago, those are the pre-diabetic pennies.
How many pennies are left? (Don’t you just hate word problems?)
Answer: there is 62 cents left.
That’s diabetes today. Nearly 4 out of every ten people you meet on the street today either have diabetes, or are developing it. And that’s just U.S. pennies. There are also pounds, and euros, and yens, and…..
So………how does that compare to other epidemics?
Now let us assume that it is in pennies. So now I have 100 pennies spread out in front of me.
Take five out and set them aside. That’s me and my kind. The Type-1 cents.
Now take out eight more pennies out and set them over there. Those are the Type-2 cents.
Now take out take out twenty five more and put them, oh, I don’t know, over there on the right somewhere. According to new numbers released by the Centers for Disease Control a few weeks ago, those are the pre-diabetic pennies.
How many pennies are left? (Don’t you just hate word problems?)
Answer: there is 62 cents left.
That’s diabetes today. Nearly 4 out of every ten people you meet on the street today either have diabetes, or are developing it. And that’s just U.S. pennies. There are also pounds, and euros, and yens, and…..
So………how does that compare to other epidemics?
posted by Wil | 8:00 AM
3 Comments:
Pretty interesting...
No, type 1s don't make 5% of the general population. You are reading that wrong. We're an estimated 5-10% of the diabetic population- if the diabetic population were 20%, we'd be 1 to 2% of the general population, and frankly, if you think we are even 1% of the entire population, you are living in a demographic very different from mine.
wikipedia says the US has 305186613 population, and IDF.org says the % of diabetics in the US is 19.2 million,so that is about 15%. Sounds about what you said. It is a huge number.
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