List Membership Composition
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May be more than 100% if a member is in more than one category.
2825 or 96% of represented forum members use an insulin pump
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Person with diabetes
|
 
86%
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Parents/caretakers of person with diabetes
|
 
10%
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Medical Professionals
|
 
5%
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Close friend/family member has diabetes
|
 
6%
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Other published data indicates that more women than men surf the net.
The membership gender distribution may be skewed due to this phenomenum.
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Male Pumpers
|
 
39%
|
Female Pumpers
|
 
61%
|
Type 1
|
 
96%
|
Type 2
|
 
4%
|
|
Pumps currently used by Pump Users
|
Annual cost = $1,500 ea. -- $33,888,000 for our 22592 pump families (4 year amortization) |
AccuChek Spirit
|
 
1%
|
Animas R-1000
|
 
1%
|
Animas IR1000
|
 
1%
|
Animas IR1200
|
 
3%
|
Animas IR1250
|
 
6%
|
Animas IR2020
|
 
4%
|
Animas Ping
|
 
4%
|
Disetronic DTRON
|
 
1%
|
Disetronic DTRONplus
|
 
1%
|
Disetronic HTRONplus v100
|
 
3%
|
Insulet OmniPod
|
 
2%
|
MiniMed 506
|
 
1%
|
MiniMed 507
|
 
2%
|
MiniMed 507C
|
 
4%
|
MiniMed 508
|
 
13%
|
Medtronic Paradigm (511)
|
 
7%
|
Medtronic 512
|
 
4%
|
Medtronic 712
|
 
3%
|
Medtronic 515
|
 
4%
|
Medtronic 715
|
 
5%
|
Medtronic 522
|
 
8%
|
Medtronic 722
|
 
8%
|
Medtronic 551
|
 
3%
|
Medtronic 751
|
 
1%
|
Medtronic 670G
|
 
1%
|
Medtronic Revel/523
|
 
11%
|
|
Favorite pump colors
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Charcoal
|
 
37%
|
Green
|
 
4%
|
Grey
|
 
12%
|
Clear
|
 
11%
|
Purple
|
 
8%
|
Blue
|
 
25%
|
White
|
 
1%
|
Pink
|
 
1%
|
|
Pumps previously used by Pump Users
|
Animas IR1000
|
 
4%
|
Animas IR1200
|
 
2%
|
Animas IR1250
|
 
2%
|
Animas IR2020
|
 
2%
|
Disetronic Dahedi 25
|
 
4%
|
Disetronic HTRON v100
|
 
6%
|
Disetronic HTRONplus v100
|
 
6%
|
MiniMed 504
|
 
8%
|
MiniMed 506
|
 
7%
|
MiniMed 507
|
 
11%
|
MiniMed 508
|
 
1%
|
Medtronic Paradigm (511)
|
 
8%
|
Medtronic 512
|
 
3%
|
Medtronic 712
|
 
2%
|
Medtronic 515
|
 
2%
|
Medtronic 715
|
 
3%
|
Medtronic 522
|
 
3%
|
OmniPod
|
 
5%
|
|
Number of Basal Rates used
|
Just 1
|
 
9%
|
2
|
 
13%
|
3
|
 
16%
|
4
|
 
24%
|
5
|
 
14%
|
6
|
 
9%
|
7
|
 
5%
|
8
|
 
6%
|
9
|
 
2%
|
10 or more
|
 
2%
|
Infusion Sets currently used by Pump Users
|
Please e-mail
Editor@insulin-pumpers.org
if your Infusion Set is not in this list.
May be more than 100% since some pumpers use more than one type of set.
|
Bent Needle
|
 
1%
|
Roche/Disetronic FlexLink
|
 
2%
|
Contact / Rapids / Sure-T
|
 
3%
|
Roche/Disetronic Ultraflex
|
 
2%
|
Comfort / Tender / Silhouette
|
 
33%
|
MiniMed SofSet
|
 
18%
|
MiniMed QuickSet, SimpleChoice Quick
|
 
27%
|
MiniMed Micro
|
 
2%
|
SimpleChoice Easy
|
 
1%
|
Unomedical Inset 30
|
 
1%
|
Unomedical Inset
|
 
11%
|
Unomedical Mio
|
 
1%
|
Smiths Medical Cleo
|
 
3%
|
Medtronic Mio
|
 
1%
|
|
Tubing Length preferred by Pump Users
|
Long, appx. 43"/110cm
|
 
40%
|
Medium, appx. 31"/80cm
|
 
12%
|
Short, appx. 24"/61cm
|
 
47%
|
|
Average frequency of infusion set change 3.33 days
|
Annual cost = $1,644 ea. -- $37,144,504 for our 22592 pump families n=544 |
Every 2 days
|
 
9%
|
Every 3 days
|
 
48%
|
Twice a week
|
 
27%
|
Every 4 days
|
 
9%
|
Every 5 days
|
 
5%
|
Every 6 days
|
 
1%
|
Weekly
|
 
1%
|
|
Average Daily Insulin Use is 42 units for 513 pumpers
|
Average Daily Insulin for Type 2's is 71 units
|
Annual cost = $1,379 ea. -- $31,170,182 for our 22592 pump families
(Add 25% for insulin used for priming and in disgarded reservoirs) |
10 units per day
|
 
6%
|
20 units per day
|
 
15%
|
30 units per day
|
 
32%
|
40 units per day
|
 
20%
|
50 units per day
|
 
11%
|
60 units per day
|
 
8%
|
70 units per day
|
 
5%
|
80 units per day
|
 
1%
|
90 units per day
|
 
2%
|
|
Type of Insulin used in pumps
|
Apidra®
|
 
3%
|
Humalog®
|
 
55%
|
Novolog®/NovoRapid®
|
 
41%
|
regular insulin
|
 
1%
|
|
Pumpers mixing Humalog® and a regular insulin baseline November 2001
|
pumpers that DO NOT mix
|
 
94%
|
pumpers that MIX Humalog® and V or R
|
 
6%
|
|
Pumpers mixing Humalog® and a regular insulin
|
pumpers that DO NOT mix
|
 
99%
|
pumpers that MIX Humalog® and V or R
|
 
1%
|
Of mixers, ratios of MIX used
|
---|
(5/1) five parts Humalog® / one part V or R
|
 
50%
|
(3/1) three parts Humalog® / one part V or R
|
 
50%
|
|
Pumpers test their blood sugar 7.3 times per day
|
Annual cost = $1,726 ea. -- $39,003,958 for our 22592 pump families |
Twice a day
|
 
1%
|
Three times a day
|
 
3%
|
Four times a day
|
 
8%
|
Five times a day
|
 
9%
|
Six times a day
|
 
20%
|
Seven times a day
|
 
13%
|
Eight times a day
|
 
19%
|
Nine times a day
|
 
5%
|
Ten times a day
|
 
12%
|
Eleven times a day
|
 
1%
|
Twelve times a day
|
 
5%
|
Thirteen times a day
|
 
1%
|
15 or more times daily
|
 
1%
|
Glucose Meters in use by list members
|
Please e-mail
Editor@insulin-pumpers.org
if your Glucose Meter is not in this list.
May be more than 100% since some members use more than one meter.
|
Accu-Chek Compact
|
 
1%
|
Accu-Chek Complete
|
 
4%
|
Advantage
|
 
4%
|
BD Logic
|
 
2%
|
Bayer Ascensia Breeze
|
 
2%
|
Bayer Dex
|
 
3%
|
Cozmonitor
|
 
3%
|
Glucometer Elite
|
 
1%
|
Instant
|
 
1%
|
Lifescan FastTake
|
 
1%
|
Lifescan One Touch Profile
|
 
2%
|
Lifescan One Touch
|
 
34%
|
MediSense Precision QID
|
 
1%
|
MediSense Precision Xtra
|
 
1%
|
Paradigm Link
|
 
10%
|
Smiths Medical Cozmore
|
 
4%
|
TheraSense Freestyle
|
 
13%
|
ThereSense Flash
|
 
5%
|
Ultra Smart
|
 
10%
|
Ultra
|
 
24%
|
Month of Diagnosis 548 samples
|
Many times diagnosis is preciptated by an illness, since routine illness occurs
more frequently in colder months we would expect this to be indicated in the data
|
January
|
 
15%
|
February
|
 
9%
|
March
|
 
9%
|
April
|
 
9%
|
May
|
 
7%
|
June
|
 
9%
|
July
|
 
7%
|
August
|
 
6%
|
September
|
 
8%
|
October
|
 
7%
|
November
|
 
6%
|
December
|
 
7%
|
Month of Pump Start 548 samples
|
January
|
 
20%
|
February
|
 
6%
|
March
|
 
9%
|
April
|
 
7%
|
May
|
 
8%
|
June
|
 
7%
|
July
|
 
7%
|
August
|
 
7%
|
September
|
 
8%
|
October
|
 
7%
|
November
|
 
6%
|
December
|
 
7%
|
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