Health Statistics

Bringing awareness to families who are facing the dramatic rise in chronic health conditions.

Allergies: In 2021, just over 25% of children in the United States had at least one allergic condition.¹
Autoimmune Thyroid Illness: Autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) is the most common autoimmune endocrine disease and has an estimated prevalence of approximately 3-5% of the general population.²
Celiac: Celiac disease affects 1 in 30 children in the United States. That number rises to 1 in 10 for children with a parent or sibling who has the disease.³
Arthritis: Arthritis affects 53.9% of adults age 75 and older.⁴

Eczema: It is estimated that 1 in 10 individuals will develop eczema during their lifetime, with prevalence peaking in early childhood.⁵
Asthma: According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, currently, there are about 4.5 million children in America under the age of 18 with asthma - which is around 6.5% of kids.⁶

Diabetes: The rate of new cases (or incidence) of diabetes in youths younger than 20 years increased in the United States between 2002 and 2015, with a 4.8% increase per year for type 2 diabetes and a 1.9% increase per year for type 1 diabetes.⁷
Iron Deficiency Anemia: According to the World Health Organization, 39.8% of children aged 6-59 months around the world have anemia.⁸
Obesity: According to the National Survey of Children's Health, in 2021-2022, 17.0% of youth ages 10 to 17 had obesity.⁹

Substance Use Disorder: In 2022, 48.7 million people aged 12 or older (17.3%) had a substance use disorder (SUD) in the past year.¹⁰
Eating Disorders: In the US, from 2018 to 2022, health visits related to eating disorders more than doubled among people under the age of 17, and visits for all eating disorders among this age group increased by 107.4%, from approximately 50,000 visits in early 2018 to >100 000 in 2022.¹¹
Depression: 15.08% of youth (age 12-17) report suffering from at least one major depressive episode (MDE) in the past year.¹²
Anxiety: Childhood anxiety disorders are very common, affecting 1 in 8 children.¹³

Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): An estimated 7 million (11.4%) U.S. children aged 3–17 years have ever been diagnosed with ADHD.¹⁴
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): According to the CDC's Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network, the rate of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States is 1 in 36 (2.8%) for 8-year-old children. This is higher than the 2018 estimate of 1 in 44 (2.3%).¹⁵
Epilepsy: In 2021, 1.1% of US adults, or about 2.9 million people, reported having active epilepsy.¹⁶

Cystic Fibrosis: There are close to 40,000 children and adults living with cystic fibrosis in the United States (and an estimated 105,000 people have been diagnosed with CF across 94 countries).¹⁷
Congenital Heart Disease: Congenital Heart Disease is the most common type of birth defect - affecting around 1% of children in America.¹⁸