Jefferson Donald Keith 1927-2005

Diabetes sucks.

My sister Carol and my father Jeff may they rest in peace.

I wish to recommit to telling the story of whats killing us here in America. The sleeper here is Diabetes. When your pancreas doesn't produce enough insulin for the amount of sugar in your body you develop #1, 4, 7, 9 as well as a host of other deadly conditions. Neither were consider killed by diabetes. My father had a stroke and my sister had cancer, but she was type1 and he was type2 and as I review the list the cover 12 of the top 15 causes of death but Diabetes is what precipitated or aggravated the majority of their chronic conditions.








Table B. Deaths and death rates for 2011 and age-adjusted death rates and percentage changes in age-adjusted rates
from 2010 to 2011 for the 15 leading causes of death in 2011: United States, final 2010 and preliminary 2011

1. 1  Diseasesofheart..........................................(I00–I09,I11,I13,I20–I51)
   
2. 2  Malignantneoplasms................................................(C00–C97)
   
3. 3  Chroniclowerrespiratorydiseases.........................................(J40–J47)
   
4. 4  Cerebrovasculardiseases..............................................(I60–I69)
   
5. 5  Accidents(unintentionalinjuries) ..................................(V01–X59,Y85–Y86)2,3
   
6. 6  Alzheimer’sdisease....................................................(G30)
   
7. 7  Diabetesmellitus ..................................................(E10–E14)
   
8. 8  Influenzaandpneumonia .............................................(J09–J18)4
   
9. 9  Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(N00–N07,N17–N19,N25–N27)5
   
10. 10  Intentionalself-harm(suicide)................................... (*U03,X60–X84,Y87.0)2
    
11. 11  Septicemia......................................................(A40–A41)
    
12. 12  Chronicliverdiseaseandcirrhosis..................................... (K70,K73–K74)
    
13. 13  Essentialhypertensionandhypertensiverenaldisease...........................(I10,I12,I15)
    
14. 14  Parkinson’sdisease................................................(G20–G21)6
    
15. 15  Pneumonitisduetosolidsandliquids......................................... (J69)
    

... Allothercauses....................................................(residual)

596,339 191.4 173.7 179.1 –3.0 575,313 184.6 168.6 172.8 –2.4 143,382 46.0 42.7 42.2 1.2 128,931 41.4 37.9 39.1 –3.1 122,777 39.4 38.0 38.0 0.0
84,691 27.2 24.6 25.1 –2.0 73,282 23.5 21.5 20.8 3.4 53,667 17.2 15.7 15.1 4.0 45,731 14.7 13.4 15.3 –12.4

38,285 12.3 12.0 12.1 35,539 11.4 10.5 10.6 33,539 10.8 9.7 9.4 27,477 8.8 8.0 8.0 23,107 7.4 7.0 6.8 18,090 5.8 5.3 5.1
512,723 164.6 ... ...

–0.8 –0.9 3.2 0.0 2.9 3.9
...