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Prediabetes

37% of U.S. adults aged 20 years or older have prediabetes

86 million Americans aged 20 years or older have prediabetes. Only 11.1% of Americans with prediabetes have been told they have it

Racial Disparities

Compared to non-Hispanic whites, the risk of diagnosed diabetes is 1.2 times higher among Asian Americans, 1.7 times higher among Hispanics, and 1.7 times higher among non- Hispanic blacks
12.8% of Hispanic/Latino adults in the United States have diagnosed diabetes
13.2% of non-Hispanic black adults in the United States have diagnosed diabetes
AmongHispanicadults,theage-adjustedrate of diagnosed diabetes was 8.5% for Central and South Americans, 9.3% for Cubans, 13.9% for Mexican Americans, and 14.8% for Puerto Ricans
Among Asian American adults, the age- adjusted rate of diagnosed diabetes was 4.4% for Chinese, 11.3% for Filipinos, 13% for Asian Indians, and 8.8% for other Asians
Among American Indian and Alaska Native adults, the age-adjusted rate of diagnosed diabetes varied by region from 6% among Alaska Natives to 24.1% among American Indians in southern Arizona

Diabetes as Cause of Death

Diabetes is the primary cause of death for 69,071 Americans each year
Diabetes contributes to the death of 234,051 Americans annually (combining death certificates that list diabetes as the primary and a contributing cause of death)

Diabetes in the United States

29.1 million Americans, 9.3% of the population, have diabetes
21 million Americans have diagnosed diabetes
8.1 million Americans have undiagnosed diabetes (27.8% of diabetes is undiagnosed)
1.7 million Americans aged 20 years or older are newly diagnosed with diabetes each year, 4,660/day, one every 19 seconds
Age 20 years or older: 12.3% of all people in this age group have diabetes

Diabetes in Youth

About 208,000 people younger than 20 years have diabetes (type 1 or type 2). This represents .25% of all people in this age group, or about
1 in 400

Cost of Diabetes

$245 billion annually attributable to diagnosed diabetes, including $176 billion in direct costs and $69 billion in indirect costs (disability, work loss, premature mortality)
People with diagnosed diabetes have health care costs 2.3 times higher than what expenditures would be in the absence of diabetes
1 in 10 health care dollars is spent treating diabetes and its complications
1 in 5 health care dollars is spent caring for people with diabetes

Complications of Diabetes

Hospitalization rates for heart attack were 1.8 times higher among adults with diabetes than among adults without diabetes
Hospitalization rates for stroke were 1.5 times higher among adults with diabetes compared to those without diabetes
In 2011, about 282,000 emergency room visits for adults aged 18 years or older had hypoglycemia as the first-listed diagnosis and diabetes as another diagnosis
In 2011, about 175,000 emergency room visits for people of all ages had hyperglycemic crisis as the first-listed diagnosis
In 2005–2008, 4.2 million (28.5%) Americans with diabetes aged 40 years or older had diabetic retinopathy
Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, accounting for 44% of all new cases of kidney failure
Annually, 49,677 Americans begin treatment for kidney failure due to diabetes

A total of 228,924 people with kidney failure due to diabetes are living on chronic dialysis or with a kidney transplant in the United States
About 60% to 70% of people with diabetes have mild to severe forms of neuropathy
Hearing loss is about twice as common in adults with diabetes as those who do not have diabetes
More than 60% of nontraumatic lower-limb amputations occur in people with diabetes.
About 73,000 nontraumatic lower-limb amputations are performed in people with diabetes annually

Other Statistics

In the United States, approximately 5% of the population with diagnosed diabetes has type 1 diabetes; approximately 90-95% has type 2 diabetes (1-5% have other, rare types)
Approximately 1.25 million American children and adults have type 1 diabetes
Among adults with diagnosed diabetes, 14% take insulin only, 14.7% take both insulin and oral medication, 56.9% take oral medication only, and 14.4% do not take either insulin or oral medication
Approximately 6 million Americans use insulin
85.2% of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese
As many as 1 in 3 American adults will have diabetes by 2050 if present trends continue
Diabetes kills more Americans every year than AIDS and breast cancer combined
A person with diagnosed diabetes at age 50 dies, on average, 6 years earlier than a counterpart without diabetes

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