From Statistics of the
National Center for Health Statistics, Raw Death Rates,
United States, 1979-1998, 3/28/2000
For the Year 2000,
they tell us that diabetes has risen from the 7th
to the 6th leading cause of death in the
US.
Note that synthetic
insulins were first introduced in 1983, when the declining
rate of diabetic mortality changed from falling to rising,
and that the "big push" to start all on synthetics
began in 1986. Roughly 25-30% of diabetics use insulin while
only 5-10% of diabetics have Type 1 diabetes mellitus.
Diabetes is the only
disease with this degree of rising Raw mortality rate over
this time period. Clearly the introduction of Humulin,
Novolin Human, Humalog, and Novolog, have not improved the
outlook or outcomes for US diabetics.
Even HIV/AIDS has done
better than Diabetes, with all of the highly touted benefits
that all of the research and development is supposed to have
done!
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