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Dekota's Story

09 July 2009

Diabetes WA member Wendy Scott describes her experience of living with a child with type 1 diabetes.

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Dekota's Story


Facts

-Type 1 diabetes is the most common chronic condition in Australian children
-70,000 children worldwide under the age of 15 develop type 1 diabetes each year
-In indigenous children in Australia and North America, the prevalence rate of type 2 diabetes ranges from 1.3 to 5.3%



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