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title: "Diabetes - Sapience Financial"
description: "Diabetes requires lifelong management. Complications from diabetes include preventable blindness, kidney failure, and amputations. People with diabetes are at higher risk for heart attack, stroke, and kidney failure."
url: "https://www.sapience.com.au/cost-burden-of/diabetes"
date: "2026-05-26T02:44:56+00:00"
language: "en-GB"
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## Diabetes

Diabetes is the **fastest growing chronic condition in Australia**.

- Diabetes is **more common in men** than women.
- There are a number of **complications that can arise** from diabetes, including **blindness**, foot complications (sometimes resulting in amputation) **kidney disease,** and **cardiovascular disease**.
- One person develops diabetes every five minutes in Australia.

The chance of an individual being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is very low at 0.33%. However, the risk rises dramatically to 5% for individuals with a first-degree relative with Type 1 diabetes.

The story is much different when it comes to Type 2 diabetes (T2D).

- The risk that a man aged 20 years will develop T2D in his lifetime is 40% and for a woman aged 20 years, the risk is 39%.

Certain **risk factors are closely linked** with a chance of developing T2D.

- These include **family history**, **age**, **overweight** and **obesity** and **gestational** diabetes.

Complications from diabetes:

- Diabetes is the leading cause of **preventable blindness** and **kidney failure** in Australia.
- There are more than 4,400 amputations per year as a result of diabetes.

The risk of Cardio Vascular events and other complications is higher for people with diabetes.

- **Heart attack** – 3times as likely
- **Stroke –** 4 times as likely
- **Kidney failure** – 3 times as likely

There is **no cure** for diabetes, and as a result, the condition **requires lifelong management**.

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