Diabetes Facts
What should you know about diabetes?
There are two types of diabetes: type 1, which results from the body's failure to produce insulin, and type 2, which results from insulin resistance or the body's inability to produce enough insulin.
Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death by disease in the U.S. Diabetes is a chronic disease that has no cure.
Diabetes is becoming the new American health epidemic of the century. Consider these facts:
More than 23 million Americans have diabetes—including more than five million (nearly one-quarter) who don't even know it. An additional 57 million people have pre-diabetes, putting them at great risk for developing type 2 diabetes. If present trends continue, one out of every three Americans born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes. More than $174 billion direct and indirect healthcare costs are attributed to diabetes (2007 statistics).
Please visit diabetes.org for comprehensive information about diabetes.
About the American Diabetes Association
The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is the nation's leading nonprofit health organization providing diabetes research, information and advocacy. Powered by a network of more than one million volunteers—and a membership representing diabetes patients and their families, physicians, scientists, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists and educators—ADA's mission is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.
 ADA holds the Better Business Bureau's (BBB) Wise Giving Alliance Seal for National Charities. The BBB Wise Giving Alliance evaluates each charity's governance, fund-raising practices, solicitations and informational materials, as well as how it spends its money. The Alliance's standards of measurement hold charitable organizations to higher principles than those required by law, thereby making the seal convey a strong and comprehensive confirmation of each organization's accountability.
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