Total: 17.0 million people -- 6.2 % of the population -- have diabetes.
Diagnosed: 11.1 million people
Undiagnosed: 5.9 million people
Age 65 years or older: 7.0 million. 20.1% of all people in this age group have diabetes.
Men: 7.8 million. 8.3% of all men have diabetes.
Women: 9.1 million. 8.9% of all women have diabetes.
Non-Hispanic whites: 11.4 million. 7.8% of all non-Latino whites have diabetes.
African Americans: 2.8 million. 13.0% of all African Americans have diabetes.
Hispanic/Latino Americans: 2.0 million. 10.2% of all Latino Americans have diabetes.
Native Americans and Alaska Natives (from U.S. Indian Health Service data): 105,000. 15.1% of these combined populations have diabetes.
New cases diagnosed per year: 1.0 million people aged 20 years or older.
*As defined by impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glucose (IFG).
For more
information in English or Spanish,
contact the American Diabetes Association
at
1-800-DIABETES (1-800-342-2383),
or visit our Web site at www.diabetes.org.
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