Diabetes Awareness

According to the American Diabetes Association, these are the overall numbers for diabetes, which is viewed as "nationwide epidemic."​

• Approximately 1,075,855 people in North Carolina, or 13.1% of the adult population, have diabetes. Of these, an estimated 247,000 have diabetes but don’t know it.

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• Over 38 million children and adults have diabetes in the United States

• Prevalence: In 2021, 38.4 million Americans, or 11.6% of the population, had diabetes

• 2 million Americans have type 1 diabetes, including about 304,000 children and adolescents

• Diagnosed and undiagnosed: Of the 38.4 million adults with diabetes, 29.7 million were diagnosed, and 8.7 million were undiagnosed.

• Prevalence in seniors: The percentage of Americans age 65 and older remains high, at 29.2%, or 16.5 million seniors (diagnosed and undiagnosed).

• New cases: 1.4 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year.

• Prediabetes: In 2021, 97.6 million Americans age 18 and older had prediabetes.

• About 352,000 Americans under age 20 are estimated to have diagnosed diabetes, approximately 0.35% of that population.

• In 2017–2018, the annual incidence of diagnosed diabetes in youth was estimated at 18,200 with type 1 diabetes, 5,300 with type 2 diabetes. ​​

 

Diabetes was the eighth leading cause of death in the United States in 2021 based on the 103,294 death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death. In 2021, diabetes was mentioned as a cause of death in a total of 399,401 certificates.

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According to the ADA Statistics, the estimated cost of diagnosed was $412.9 billion diabetes. $306.6 billion was for direct medical costs

$106.3 billion was in indirect costs

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​This information was retrieved from the American Diabetes Association: Statistics About Diabetes | ADA and ​Diabetes and Statistics | ADA

and the CDC National Diabetes Statistics Report.