Barbie release the first doll with type 1 diabetes, with high cases of youth

Barbie released her latest doll – who lives her life with her The first type of diabetes.

the first Barbie doll Its type was announced on Tuesday with a vision of enabling more children from “seeing themselves reflected in Barbie” with the encouragement of a “doll’s play” that extends beyond the child’s live experience, “according to a press statement at Mattel Inc.

The doll comes in full with the continuous glucose screen (CGM) that she wears on her arm.

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It is kept in place with a pink medical tape, as well as a phone that displays the CGM application to help track blood sugar levels.

Barbie also comes with an insulin pump connected to its waist, allowing insulin doses as needed.

Her blue clothes represent the Polka-Point and Global Codes for Diabetes Consciousness.

“Providing a Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes is an important step in our commitment to comprehensiveness and acting,” said Christa Berger, Vice President of Barbie and President of the World Dolls.

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“Barbie helps form children’s early perceptions of the world, and reflects medical conditions such as T1D, we guarantee that more children can see themselves in the stories they imagine and the dolls they love.”

The company said that Barbie had made a partnership with the penetration of the T1D, which was previously JDRF – a leading research organization and calling for a leading global diabetes of type 1 – to develop the doll.

The new Barbie reaches as numbers of type 1 diabetes among America’s youth are high.

Data Center data indicate that 304,000 children and adolescents under the age of 20 suffer from diagnosis of type 1 diabetes in 2021.

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From 2017 to 2018, the annual diabetes infection in young people was estimated at 18200 with type 1 diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association reports.

More than 38 million Americans of all ages, about 12 %, suffer from diabetes.

The Center for Disease Control in 2024 confirmed that young diabetes is “high” and will continue to increase during the next few decades.

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If new diagnoses continues to rise in current numbers, type 1 diabetes will increase by 65 % by 2060, according to the study of the Disease Control Center.

Diabetes 2 will increase by about 700 %.