Fast Facts on Diabetes Jan 2022 report

Diabetes

• Total: 37.3 million people have diabetes (11.3% of the US population)
• Diagnosed: 28.7 million people, including 28.5 million adults
• Undiagnosed: 8.5 million people (23.0% of adults are undiagnosed)

Prediabetes

• Total: 96 million people aged 18 years or older have prediabetes (38.0% of the adult US population)
• 65 years or older: 26.4 million people aged 65 years or older (48.8%) have prediabetes

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What’s New?

• In the past decade, the annual rate of new cases of diabetes among US adults has been going down overall.
• Diabetes-related complications have increased among young adults aged 18–44 years and among middle-aged adults aged 45–64 years.
• The rate of new cases of diabetes among children and adolescents continues to grow.
• Nearly 1 in 5 adolescents aged 12–18 years and 1 in 4 young adults aged 19–34 years have prediabetes.

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Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention