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National Diabetes Information
Clearinghouse (NDIC)

* Among U.S. residents ages 65 years and older, 10.9 million, or 26.9 percent, had diabetes in 2010.
* About 215,000 people younger than 20 years had diabetes—type 1 or type 2—in the United States in 2010.
* About 1.9 million people ages 20 years or older were newly diagnosed with diabetes in 2010 in the United States.
* In2005–2008, based on fasting glucose or hemoglobin A1C (A1C) levels, 35 percent of U.S. adults ages 20 years or older had prediabetes—50 percent of adults ages 65 years or older. Applying this percentage to the entire U.S. population in 2010 yields an estimated 79 million American adults ages 20 years or older with prediabetes.
* Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, nontraumaticlower-limb amputations, and new cases of blindness among adults in the United States.
* Diabetes is a major cause of heart disease and stroke.
* Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.
Estimation Methods
The estimates in this fact sheet were derived from various data systems of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Indian Health Service's(IHS's) National Patient Information Reporting System (NPIRS), the U.S. Renal Data System of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Census Bureau, and published studies. The estimated percentages and the total number of people with diabetes and prediabetes were derived from 2005–2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2007–2009 National Health Interview Survey, 2009IHS data, and 2010 U.S. resident population estimates. The diabetes and prediabetes estimates from NHANES were applied to the 2010 U.S. resident population estimates to derive the estimated number of adults with diabetes or prediabetes.
The methods used to generate the estimates for the fact sheet may vary over time and need to be considered before comparing fact sheets. In contrast to NationalDiabetes Statistics, 2007, which used fasting glucose data to estimate undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes, National Diabetes Statistics, 2011 uses both fasting glucose and A1C levels to derive estimates for undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes. These tests were chosen because they are most frequently used in clinical practice.
Detailed information about the data sources, methods, and referencesare available at www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/references11.htm.

Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Diabetes among People Ages 20 Years or Older, United States, 2010
Group | Number or percentage who have diabetes |
Ages 20 years or older | 25.6 million, or 11.3 percent, of all people in this age group |
Ages 65 years or older | 10.9 million, or 26.9 percent, of all people in this age group |
Men |13.0 million, or 11.8 percent, of all men ages 20 years or older |
Women | 12.6 million, or 10.8 percent, of all women ages 20 years or older |
Non-Hispanic whites | 15.7 million, or 10.2 percent, of all non-Hispanic whites ages 20 years or older |
Non-Hispanic blacks | 4.9 million, or 18.7 percent, of all non-Hispanic blacks ages 20 years or older |
Sufficient data are not available toestimate the total prevalence of diabetes—diagnosed and undiagnosed—for
other U.S. racial/ethnic minority populations.
Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Diabetes

Source: 2005–2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Diagnosed Diabetes
Diagnosed Diabetes among People Younger than 20 Years of Age, United States, 2010
About 215,000 people younger than 20 years have diabetes—type 1 or type 2.This represents 0.26 percent of all people in this age group. Estimates of undiagnosed diabetes are unavailable for this age group.

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Diagnosed Diabetes
National estimates of diagnosed diabetes for some but not all minority groups are available from national survey data and from the IHS NPIRS, which includes data for about 1.9 million American Indians and Alaska...