Opportunity: Asthma and type 1 diabetes (T1D) are major causes of chronic morbidity in childhood. Canada has the sixth highest occurrence rate of T1D in children 14 years or younger in the world, and the incidence is rising. In the next 10 years, approximately 36,000 Canadians will be diagnosed with T1D and 5,800 will die of complications from the disease. Persons with T1D have a shortened life expectancy (by as much as 15 years), a reduced quality of life and an increased likelihood of complications such as coronary artery disease, stroke, kidney disease, blindness, and peripheral vascular disease leading to.
