Children and Teens
Dekota's Story
09 July 2009
Diabetes WA member Wendy Scott describes her experience of living with a child with type 1 diabetes.

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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