About Diabetes🔗

Diabetes mellitus refers to a group of metabolic diseases in which a person's blood sugar levels remain high over an extended period of time. The classic symptoms include increased thirst, frequent urination and increased hunger. Either the pancreas is not producing enough insulin (Type 1 DM) or it is not responding to the insulin made by the body (Type 2 DM). The third type is gestational diabetes and it occurs while a woman is pregnant and then usually resolves after birth. When diabetes goes untreated, many complications can arise, some of which can be quite serious, causing stroke, kidney failure, eye damage or heart disease. Prevention and treatment of diabetes usually includes regular physical activity, healthy diet and weight, abstaining from tobacco products, blood pressure control and wearing quality footwear. Type 1 diabetes must be managed with insulin injections, while type 2 may or may not use medication and insulin.

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Prevalence: In 2019, 37.3 million Americans, or 11.3% of the population, had diabetes.

Diagnosed and undiagnosed: Of the 37.3 million adults with diabetes, 28.7 million were diagnosed, and 8.5 million were undiagnosed.

Prevalence in seniors: The percentage of Americans age 65 and older remains high, at 29.2%, or 15.9 million seniors (diagnosed and undiagnosed).

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

Prediabetes: In 2019, 96 million Americans age 18 and older had prediabetes.

Diabetes was the leading cause of death in the United States in 2019 based on the 87,647 death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death. In 2019, diabetes was mentioned as a cause of death in a total of 282,801 certificates.

The rates of diagnosed diabetes in adults by race/ethnic background are:

Source: https://www.diabetes.org/about-us/statistics/about-diabetes#:~:text=Overall%20numbers,of%20the%20population%2C%20had%20diabetes.&text=Diagnosed%20and%20undiagnosed%3A%20Of%20the%2037.3%20million%20were%20diagnosed%20and%208.5%20million%20were%20undiagnosed.