Diabetes Fast Facts

Diabetes Fast Facts

Incidence of Diabetes in the U.S. population, according to the American Diabetes Association:

20.8 million children and adults in the United States, or 7% of the population, have diabetes.
Under 20 years of age: 176,500, or 0.22% of all people in this age group have diabetes.
About one in every 400 to 600 children and adolescents has type 1 diabetes.
Two (2) million adolescents (or 1 in 6 overweight adolescents) aged 12-19 have pre-diabetes.
Age 20 years or older: 20.6 million, or 9.6% of all people in this age group have diabetes.
Age 60 years or older: 10.3 million, or 20.9% of all people in this age group have diabetes.
Men: 10.9 million, or 10.5% of all men aged 20 years or older have diabetes although nearly one third of them do not know it.
Women: 9.7 million, or 8.8% of all women aged 20 years or older have diabetes although nearly one third of them do not know it.
The prevalence of diabetes is at least 2 to 4 times higher among non-Hispanic Black, Hispanic/Latino American, American Indian, and Asian/Pacific Islander women than among non-Hispanic white women.
In 2007, diabetes claimed 284,000 lives

Cost of Type 2 Diabetes, according to the State of Diabetes Complications in America, issued by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists:

Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all diagnosed diabetes cases and affects more than 18 million people in the United States.
Estimated annual healthcare costs for a person with diabetes and its related complications are about three times that of the average American without diagnosed diabetes.
Total yearly expenditures for a person with type 2 diabetes complications are almost $10,000, of which nearly $1,600 is paid out-of-pocket for healthcare costs not reimbursed by insurance, such as co-payments and deductibles.
An estimated one out of three people (33.3 percent) has one complication; one out of ten (10.3 percent) has two complications; one out of 15 (6.7 percent) has three complications and one out of 13 (7.6 percent) has four or more complications. The complications included in this analysis are heart attack (9.8% of diabetics), stroke (6.6% of diabetics), coronary heart disease (9.1% of diabetics), congestive heart failure (7.9% of diabetics), chest pain (9.5%), chronic kidney disease (27.8% of diabetics), eye damage (18.9% of diabetics) and foot problems (22.9% of diabetics).

Cost of Diabetes in the United States:

Estimated cost of diabetes in 2007 is $174 billion annually, including $116 billion in excess medical expenditures and $58 billion in reduced productivity
Medical costs attributed to diabetes include $27 billion for care directly to treat diabetes, $58 billion to treat the portion of diabetes-related chronic complications, and $31 billion in excess general medical costs.
Diabetes costs have increased by 32 percent since 2002
The largest components of medical expenditures attributed to diabetes are: hospital inpatient care (50% of total costs), diabetes medication and supplies (12%), retail prescriptions to treat complications of diabetes (11%), and physician office visits (9%).
People with diagnosed diabetes incur average expenditures of $11,744 per year, of which $6,649 is attributed to diabetes.
People with diagnosed diabetes have, on average, medical expenditures that are 2.3 times higher than what expenditures would be in the absence of diabetes.
Indirect costs include increased absenteeism ($2.6 billion) and reduced productivity while at work ($20.0 billion) for the employed population, reduced productivity for those not in the labor force ($0.8 billion), unemployment from disease-related disability ($7.9 billion) and lost productive capacity due to early mortality ($26.9 billion).

References:
American Diabetes Association. http://www.diabetes.org

“The Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2007.” The Lewin Group. http://care.diabetesjournals.org/misc/econcosts.pdf

Diabetes Care 31:1-20, 2008. http://care.diabetesjournal.org

State of Diabetes Complications in America, A Comprehensive Report Issued by the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, in partnership with Amputee Coalition of America Mended Hearts National Federation of the Blind National Kidney Foundation, April 2007. http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/News/press-releases/media/Diabetes%20Complications%20Report_FINAL.PDF

"Economic Cost of Diabetes in the US in 2002," American Diabetes Association, Diabetes Care 26:917-932, 2003 http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/26/3/917

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