If you have diabetes or your child or loved one has diabetes, please tell me, in comment form, what type of diabetes you or they have and what color your or their eyes are. This is for science, people - the science of my curious head...
Thank you in advance.
49 comments:
Type 1 - Blueish, Greenish, Grayish. Not quite any one color, but light.
Type 1. Brown
Type I.
Brown.
Type 1.
Blue.
Type 1, blue.
My daughter has type 1 and blue eyes.
type 1, blue-ish grey.
Type 1. Brown.
Type 1 - Brown
Type 1 - greenish
Type 1 - Similar to Nicole P
more blue before type 1, more green after
but a mix of blue green and gray alway's
Type 1 blue.
Type 1
Blue-ish gray
Type 1: Blue. But gray when I'm pissed off. :)
My data collection thus far has determined that our little group is kind of bizarre...
14 total answers, only 4 sets of brown eyes. Not the norm - the general populations is about 80% brown eyed from everything I've read - and only 1 in every 6 has blue eyes - as opposed to 8 true blue and one mostly blue for 9 total answers of 14 in our group. The only stat that meets the typical is green, with an answer of about 2 from our group in 14.
Thank you for satisfying my curiousity.
If you've not yet answered, please do.
Type 1, greenish hazel.
Me - type 2, brown rimmed with grey. (Same exact coloring, including the rim of grey, as my type 2 father.)
Greg - type 1, hazel.
type 1 - blue (but every other type 1 i have ever met in person has dark brown eyes and i thought i was onto something... i guess not ;))
type 1, blue
Type 1. Irish blue.
type 1- hazel/light brown
Note that people with access to the internet may be disproportionately White.
Jonah - I was also thinking about the fact that people with type 1 are primarily caucasian. But even in caucasian Americans, the most recent census data indicates that brown eyes are most common - it doesn't really seem to be the case in this little pool of folks... Not that I'm trying to determine much of anything... Nicole
type 1 - brown
type 1 brown
Scandinavians have a proportionately highest population of Type 1 diabetics compared to other countries.
Are they primarily blue eyed?
Nicole I got your email and will answer as soon as I can. I have T1 and my eyes are grayish green.
my daughter, 11, has type 1 and blue eyes
Shannon - Wikipedia says that according to a 2002 study, blue-eye color is most common in countries around the Baltic Sea - including Sweden, Norway, and Finland - with 90% of the population having blue eyes in some of those countries. So the answer to your question is yes - now in the United States, I'm not sure if the predominance of blue eyes among Scandinavians holds true...
Gray eyes and green eyes are the most rare eye colors - that seems to be holding true in our group.
And - as we get more answers the number of brown eyed folks seems to be on the rise.
Type 1 - Brown
Type 1
Brown eyes
Type 1.
Brown
See... Even more brown...
Type 1. Brown.
My mom is type 1 and her eyes are hazel.
I am a type 1 and my eyes are brown.
My daughter is a type 1. Her eyes are brown.
T1 - Blue
T1 - Hazel
T2 - Brown
T1.5 - Brown
Kassie - That looks like some kind of funky code. Clearly, I am not going to find any real patterning here... But now I know what colors look good on some of you. :)
T1 - gray.
Type 1. Brown.
Type 2. Brown.
Type 2. Brown.
Type 2. Brown.
[Odd little family we have, eh?]
Results of my completely pointless research:
Type 1
Note: Eye colors are written using the primary color indicated by the poll participant (ie: my eyes are blueish first, therefore I am a blue)
Blue 14
Brown 13
Gray 1
Green 1
Hazel 5
I couldn't find any stats at all around hazel eyes. But the blue/brown thing in our group is probably explained by the fact that type 1 is most common among caucasians - and as Shannon pointed out VERY common among Scandinavians - 90% of whom, in many countries, are blue-eyed. Gray eyes and green eyes are the least common eye colors worldwide - that holds true in our group.
Type 2 – 6 Brown
I'm not sure what to make of this at all given the small # of type 2 answers...
Anyway... Thank you so much for satisfying my silly whim... You guys are the BEST. :)
Nicole, I did a poll on a parents of Type 1 D kids message board once to see how many of the D kids had jaundice when they were born (the story behind why I did it is WAY too long to get into), but I thought maybe there was somekind of correlation. It was about 50/50.
My poll was pretty useless too, but I felt compelled to do it :)
Type1... Green with Brownish dots:)
Type 1 here, with green eyes.
Lindsey
Type 1 - everything but one clear color. People say they're blue but to me they're greenish - grayish.
Type 1, blue/grey.
Just noticed Shannon's comment about Scandanavians and diabetes. I've never heard that before. I am of Scandanavian descent on both sides (Finland).
Type 1, greenish hazel.
Does this have some meaning? I'm dying to know...
type 1 and bluuuueee.
Type 1 with hazel eyes here.
My Dad and I are both type 2. He has light blue eyes and I have hazel eyes.
Type I. Blue Blue Blue
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