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Diabetes Fact & Figures

# Diabetes is Australia's fastest growing chronic disease.

# An average of 55,000 people are diagnosed every year. 1048 people are diagnosed every week, 150 people every day - that's one person every ten minutes.

# Average cost for person with Type 2 diabetes in expenditure and benefits is $5360 - if there are complications, this more than doubles.

# People with diabetes are almost three times more likely to have high blood pressure, obesity or elevated blood fats eg: cholesterol.

# Type 2 diabetes - usually found in middle age, is increasingly being diagnosed in children.

# Complications of diabetes include eye disease, kidney disease, neuropathy, heart disease and stroke and erectile dysfunction in men.
# Diabetes Australia supports Australian research through the Diabetes Australia Research Trust.