Diabetes Health Is Improving In The US

In 2009, the 10 leading causes of death in the US were, in rank

order:

• Heart disease: 599,413
• Cancer: 567,628
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 137,353
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,842
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 118,021
• Alzheimer's disease: 79,003
• Diabetes: 68,705
• Influenza and Pneumonia: 53,692
• Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 48,935
• Intentional self-harm (suicide):

 So Diabetes ranked number 7 that year.   

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/lcod.htm

I recently saw an old article online that said diabetes was the third leading cause of death in the US, after heart disease and cancer. I don't know what year that was, but since it is the seventh leading cause now, we have certainly come a long way.

The link below says that the life expectancy of type 1 diabetics is almost as good as that of non diabetics:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/medical/health/medical/diabetes/story/2011/06/Life-expectancy-improves-for-type-1-diabetics/48851072/1