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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Incidence of insulin-treated diabetes in Australia, 2015

This fact sheet from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare provides the latest available
national data on new cases of insulin-treated diabetes in Australia.
It shows that in 2015 there were 28,775 people who began using insulin to treat their diabetes in Australia-63% had type 2 diabetes, 26% had gestational diabetes, 9% had type 1 diabetes and 2% had other forms of diabetes or their diabetes status was unknown.
The fact sheet is accompanied by a dynamic data display, which provides data on insulin-treated diabetes by age at first insulin use, Indigenous status, remoteness, SEIFA and state/territory.

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