Incidence of Diabetes

You are not alone.

The numbers from the National Institute of Health (NIH-2007) are staggering. Almost one in every four of the population over age 60 has diabetes.

Prevalence of Diabetes 

Prevalence of Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Diabetes among People Ages 20 Years or Older, United States, 2007

• Age 20 years or older: 23.5 million, or 10.7 percent, of all people in this age group have diabetes.
• Age 60 years or older: 12.2 million, or 23.1 percent, of all people in this age group have diabetes.
• Men: 12 million, or 11.2 percent, of all men ages 20 years or older have diabetes.
• Women: 11.5 million, or 10.2 percent, of all women ages 20 years or older have diabetes.
• Non-Hispanic whites: 14.9 million, or 9.8 percent, of all non-Hispanic whites ages 20 years or older have diabetes.
• Non-Hispanic blacks: 3.7 million, or 14.7 percent, of all non-Hispanic blacks ages 20 years or older have diabetes.

After adjusting for population age differences, 2004 to 2006 national survey data for people ages 20 years or older indicate that 6.6 percent of non-Hispanic whites, 7.5 percent of Asian Americans, 10.4 percent of Hispanics, and 11.8 percent of non-Hispanic blacks had diagnosed diabetes. Among Hispanics, rates were 8.2 percent for Cubans, 11.9 percent for Mexican Americans, and 12.6 percent for Puerto Ricans.

Source: http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/DM/PUBS/statistics/

 Source: http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/DM/PUBS/statistics/

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Incidence of diagnosed diabetes in people younger than 20 years of age, US, 2002-2003

SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth is a multicenter study funded by CDC and NIH to examine diabetes (type 1 and type 2) among children and adolescents in the United States. SEARCH findings for the communities studied include the following:

• 15,000 youth newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes annually
• 3,700 youth were newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes annually.
• The rate of new cases among youth was 19.0 per 100,000 each year for type 1 diabetes and 5.3 per 100,000 for type 2 diabetes.
• Non-Hispanic white youth had the highest rate of new cases of type 1 diabetes.
• Type 2 diabetes was extremely rare among youth aged <10 years.
• While still infrequent, rates were greater among youth aged 10-19 years compared to younger children, with higher rates among U.S. minority populations compared with non-Hispanic whites.
• Among non-Hispanic white youth aged 10-19 years, the rate of new cases of type 1 diabetes was higher than for type 2 diabetes.
• For Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian youth aged 10-19 years, the opposite was true-the rate of new cases of type 2 was greater than the rate for type 1 diabetes.
• Among African American and Hispanic youth aged 10-19 years, the rates of new cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes were similar.

Source: Adapted from http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/estimates07.htm#1