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Diabetes  /  Prevalence & Incidence

Despite recent advances, diabetes continues to be a major health threat for at least 29 million Americans who have it and the 86 million Americans with prediabetes. The biggest concerns for individuals with the disease are its many complications and co-morbidities; which can cause vision loss, heart disease, stroke, and other debilitating medical conditions. With the aging of the population and the rise in risk factors like obesity, these problems are going to skyrocket, making medical innovation more critical than ever.

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    • Global DR Prevalence
      The overall prevalence of global DR is 34.6%—6.96% for PDR, 6.81% for DME, and 10.2% for vision-threatening DR.  
    • Risk of DR
      The risk of DR increases the longer a person has diabetes.  More than 75% of people who have diabetes for more than 20 years will have some form of DR.  
    • Global DR Prevalence
      DR affects more than 126 million people around the world— 37 million with vision-threatening DR.  
    • Proportion of People with Diabetes with Diabetic Retinopathy of Any Severity, by Country
      Map figures are for both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.  
    • Over 25.8 million Americans are impacted by diabetes  
    • From 2009 – 2012, an estimated 86 million American adults had prediabetes—37% of adults age 20 and older, and 51% of adults age 65 and older.  
    • More than 29 million people in the U.S.—9.3% of the population, had diabetes in 2014.  Of those, 8 million people were undiagnosed.  
    • 25.8 million Americans–8.3% of the total population–have diabetes.  
    • In 2010, 1.9 million Americans age 20 and older were diagnosed with diabetes.  
    • 79 million Americans have pre-diabetes–a condition of higher-than-normal blood glucose levels that puts them at risk of developing diabetes.  
    • 7 million Americans are unaware that they have diabetes.  
    • In 2010, 18.8 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes.  
    • In 2010, 10.9 million Americans aged 65 years or older had diabetes.  
    • About 1.9 million people aged 20 years or older were newly diagnosed with diabetes in 2010 in the United States.  
    • Since 1980, the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes has more than doubled, rising from 2.8 percent of the USpopulation to 8.3 percent in 2010.  
    • Up to 40 percent of adult Americans  with diabetes and 93 percent of those with prediabetes are unaware of their status.  
    • The increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes among people with a family history of the disease is estimated as two to six times greater than the risk among people…  
    • In 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that the US prevalence of diabetes was 8.3 percent.  
    • About 25 percent of those with prediabetes go on to develop diabetes within three to five years.  
    • Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90-95 percent of United States diabetes cases.  
    • Diabetes affects 25.8 million Americans- 8.3 percent of the population and 26.7 percent of those over age sixty-five.  
    • From 2009 to 2034, for the Medicare-eligible population, the diabetes population is expected to rise from 8.2 million in 2009 to 14.6 million in 2034.  
    • Between 2009 and 2034, the number of people with diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes will increase from 23.7 million to 44.1 million.  
    • In 2004, 31.3 million Medicare beneficiaries living in the community had diabetes.  
    • Type 2 diabetes mellitus affects more than 7% of adults in the US and leads to substantial personal and economic burden.  
    • Type 1 diabetes accounts for an estimated 5.7% (1 million) of the 17.5 million people with diagnosed diabetes.  
    • About 1/4 of Americans age 60 and over had diabetes (either physician diagnosed or undiagnosed) in 2003-2006.  
    • Type 2 diabetes accounts for close to 95% of all diabetes cases in the U.S. and most cases of undiagnosed diabetes.  
    • It is likely that diabetes is underreported as a cause of death. Studies show that only 35-40% of decendents with diabetes had it listed anywhere on the death certificate, and…  
    • Estimated number of new cases of diagnosed diabetes in people aged 20 years and older, by age group, United States, 2007  
    • In 2007, approximately 1.6 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in Americans aged 20 years or older.  
    • Estimated prevalence of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes in people aged 20 years or older, by age group, United States, 2007  
    • In 2007, 12.2 million (23.1%) Americans age 60 and older had diabetes.  
    • 1 in 3 Americans will develop diabetes over the course of his/her lifetime.  
    • Every year, over 210,000 deaths are attributable to diabetes and its complications.  
    • An additional 54 million people are estimated to have pre-diabetes, a condition where blood glucose levels are abnormally high– but not yet high enough to be considered diabetes.  
    • From 2001-2004, 23% of Americans age 60 and older had diabetes.  
    • Proportion of Female Population with Confirmed Diabetes in 2002  
    • Proportion of Male Population with Confirmed Diabetes in 2002  
    • 9.7 million American women age 20 and older – 8.8% of all women in this age group – have diabetes. Nearly 1/3 do not know that they have it.  
    • 10.9 million American men age 20 and older – 10.5% of all men in this age group – have diabetes. Nearly 1/3 do not know that they have it.  
    • Diabetes prevalence in the United States increased by more than 60% between 1990 and 2001.  
    • 17 million Americans–approximately 6% of the population–have type 2 diabetes, the most common form of diabetes.  
    • 20.8 million people–7% of the population–have diabetes.