Diabetes: The Numbers - Slide 3

Diabetes Complications

• 2 in 3 people with diabetes die of heart disease or stroke

• Diabetes is the #1 cause of adult blindness

• Diabetes is the #1 cause of kidney failure

• Diabetes causes more than 60% of non-traumatic lower-limb amputations each year

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• About 2 in 3 people with diabetes die from heart disease or stroke. The risk for heart disease and stroke is 2 to 4 times higher in people with diabetes.

• Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults aged 20 to 74 years.

• Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, accounting for 44 percent of new cases in 2002. In 2002, close to 154,000 people with end-stage kidney disease due to diabetes were living on chronic dialysis or with a kidney transplant in the United States and Puerto Rico.

• Diabetes causes more than 60 percent of nontraumatic lower-limb amputations each year. In 2002, about 82,000 nontraumatic lower-limb amputations were performed in people with diabetes.
  

Reference

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet: general information and national estimates on diabetes in the United States, 2005. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 2005.