what is the incidence of chronic diseases in the usa? and the source?
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The Burden of Disease study will tell you.\n\nLook thru these hits.
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sorry to hear about that. but yes, people are dying earlier nowadays, and i think it's interesting because despite the advances in medicine and health care provision, people are becoming more vulnerable to diseases and infections. people living in urban areas are exposed to high levels of air and industrial pollution, and not to mention, sedentary lifestyle. today, everyone is susceptible to chronic diseases, regardless of whether or not they can afford healh care. i hope we can do something to prevent elevating levels of early deaths.
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Depression doesn't directly come from having diabetes, but it is more likely to have depression with a chronic disease like diabetes and having to eat differently and deal with the disease.
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Many people in the U.S. access health care over the internet.  Most likely not as much in other countries because of the lack of internet resources.
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Try contacting the american diabetes association.  www.diabetes.org
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Like in many other countries in Europe, Oceania, and in the Americas; diseases resulting from one's life style. I.e. cardiovascular disease, cancer, stress related diseases, suicide, etc.
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There is a nice chart at: http://www.lpch.org/DiseaseHealthInfo/HealthLibrary/diabetes/nrmgrth.html
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you might want to try center of disease control ( CDC ) in Atlanta or Journal of Medicine. They should have what you need.
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Go to the National Institutes of Health or try visiting their website:\n\nwww.nih.gov
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www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi
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A chronic disease is defined as  A disease with one or more of the following characteristics: permanence, leaves residual disability, caused by non-reversible pathological alternation, requires special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may require a long period of supervision, observation, or care.\n\nIn this case, yes, diabetes meets all of these criteria, and is considered a chronic disease.
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No more then they talk about Tuberculosis resistant drug strain type that is spreading fast that many doctors think will be a major problem and Hepatitis C and Leprosy. These are due to our mass uncontrolled immigration. \nLike most American if it isn't in People magazine it isn't worth talking about. Connect the dots.
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http://www.jhu.edu/\n\nmedical references\nhttp://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/medicine/diseases/
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about 4 million and probably another million that don't know they have it.\n\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepatitis/c/plan/HCV_infection.htm\n\nThis CDC web page lists figures from 1994 so you can be sure the numbers have grown since then.
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"5.3% of US adults are affected by asthma"-www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/full/125/6/1972\n\nIf this 5.3% is randomly distributed (which we may as well assume it is) then this statement is precisely equivalent to saying "the probability of a randomly selected adult in the U.S. being afflicted with asthma is .053."
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=15752236&dopt=Abstract\n\n\n\nhttp://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/27/7/1838
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http://www.cdc.gov/std/default.htm this is the site for the center for disease control