Diabetes can strike anyone, from any walk of life.
And it does – in numbers that are dramatically increasing. In the last decade, the cases of people with diabetes jumped more than 40 percent – to almost 24 million Americans.
Worldwide, it afflicts 180 million people. And the World Health Organization estimates that by 2030, that number will more than double.
Today, diabetes takes more lives than AIDS and breast cancer combined -- claiming the life of 1 American every 3 minutes. It is a leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart failure and stroke.
The disease places an enormous emotional, physical and financial burden on the entire family. Annually, diabetes costs the American public more than $218 billion.
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