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National Diabetes Fact Sheet

General information and national estimates on diabetes in the United States, 2005

The 2005 fact sheet is provided in Portable Document Format (PDF — 247 KB).

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**Table of Contents**
General Information	National Estimates on Diabetes
What is diabetes? Treating diabetes Prediabetes: Impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose	Total prevalence of diabetes in the United States, all ages, 2005 Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes in people aged 20 or younger, United States, 2005 Total prevalence of diabetes among people aged 20 years or older, United States, 2005 Total prevalence of diabetes by race/ethnicity among people aged 20 years or older, United States, 2005 Incidence of diabetes, United States, 2005 Deaths among people with diabetes, United States, 2002 Complications of diabetes in the United States Preventing diabetes complications Estimated diabetes costs in the United States in 2002

Acknowledgments

The following organizations collaborated in compiling the information for this fact sheet:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov/browse/diabetes.htm
American Association of Diabetes Educators
http://www.aadenet.org *
American Diabetes Association
http://www.diabetes.org *
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
http://cms.hhs.gov
Department of Veterans Affairs
http://www.va.gov/health/diabetes/
Health Resources and Services Administration
http://www.hrsa.gov
Indian Health Service
http://www.ihs.gov/MedicalPrograms/Diabetes/index.asp
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International
http://www.jdrf.org *
National Diabetes Education Program, a joint program of NIH and CDC
http://www.ndep.nih.gov
http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/ndep/index.htm
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease of the National Institutes of Health
http://www.niddk.nih.gov
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health
http://www.omhrc.gov

* Links to non-Federal organizations are provided solely as a service to our users. Links do not constitute an endorsement of any organization by CDC or the Federal Government, and none should be inferred. The CDC is not responsible for the content of the individual organization Web pages found at this link.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National diabetes fact sheet: general information and national estimates on diabetes in the United States, 2005. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2005.

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