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Data from the National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2014 (released June 10, 2014)

Overall Numbers, Diabetes and Prediabetes

  • Prevalence the number of people in a given group or population who are reported to have a disease.X: In 2012, 29.1 million Americans, or 9.3% of the population, had diabetes.
    • Approximately 1.25 million American children and adults have type 1 diabetes.
  • Undiagnosed: Of the 29.1 million, 21.0 million were diagnosed, and 8.1 million were undiagnosed.
  • Prevalence in Seniors: The percentage of Americans age 65 and older remains high, at 25.9%, or 11.8 million seniors (diagnosed and undiagnosed).
  • New Cases: The incidencea measure of how often a disease occurs; the number of new cases of a disease among a certain group of people for a certain period of time.X of diabetes in 2012 was 1.7 million new diagnoses/year; in 2010 it was 1.9 million.
  • Prediabetes: In 2012, 86 million Americans age 20 and older had prediabetesa condition in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal but are not high enough for a diagnosis of diabetes. People with prediabetes are at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes and for heart disease and stroke. Other names for prediabetes are impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose.X; this is up from 79 million in 2010.
  • Deaths: Diabetes remains the 7th leading cause of death in the United States in 2010, with 69,071 death certificates listing it as the underlying cause of death, and a total of 234,051 death certificates listing diabetes as an underlying or contributing cause of death.

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  1. I’m glad to see the statistics are on here. Not many people understand how serious diabetes can be. You’re doing a great job promoting awareness.

  2. As a dialysis nurse, I have found more of the diabetes patients to be non compliant DM2 patients. Even with frequent education and reminders, they do not want to hear that they cannot eat their regular diets or that they have to monitor their blood glucose levels. Especially in the older population it is very difficult to properly educate them as they are so resistant to changing their ways.

  3. the statistics are just huge, people are afraid to hear the word “cancer” but diabetes is killing more people annually than most cancers but not many people take the disease as serious as they need to be.

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