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Type 2 diabetes

What research knows about type 2 diabetes comes from people who live with it. Here is how many do, what records they usually have, and what sharing yours is worth.

Living with it

507.8 million

People living with type 2 diabetes worldwide, 2021

source

New diagnoses

One every 1.3 seconds

23.9 million a year, worldwide

source

How rare

Common

about 630 in 10,000 people

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What patients usually have

The records behind type 2 diabetes

  • Blood pressure measurement

    Health record extract

    at least annually

    guideline
  • Annual foot examination (diabetic foot risk check)

    Doctor's letters

    annually for people at low risk, as part of the annual diabetes review

    guideline
  • Diabetic eye screening (retinal photographs)

    Scan reports

    at diagnosis, then through the national screening service

    guideline
  • HbA1c test

    Repeated lab results

    every 3 to 6 months until stable, then every 6 months

    guideline

What sharing it is worth

$91

per licence for a complete story and one year of these records, $91 to $1,138

Value your own data
  • Your health story$23how
  • Lab resultsx1$0.24how
  • Doctor's lettersx1$3.49how
  • Scan reportsx1$2.79how
  • Repeated lab resultsx3$0.58how
  • Richness premium (4 kinds of data linked)x3how

A benchmark from published prices, not a promise: contributors earn a share each time a licence includes their data. How the benchmark works · What health data sells for

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