Diabetes On the Rise: 24 million Americans have diabetes
June 25th 2008 15:38
The American Diabetes Association
According to the MSNBC, new government estimates show that nearly 24 million people in the United States have diabetes, an increase of more than 3 million in two years.
This means that nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population has diabetes, mostly the type-2 diabetes linked with obesity, poor diet and a lack of exercise, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.
The estimates, based on 2007 data, also show that 57 million people have pre-diabetes, a condition that puts people at increased risk for diabetes. And up to 25 percent of people with diabetes do not know they have it, the CDC said — down from 30 percent two years ago.
lmost 25 percent of the population 60 years and older had diabetes in 2007, the CDC found.
The highest rates are among Native Americans and Alaska Natives, with 16.5 percent affected. Close to 12 percent of blacks and 10 percent of Hispanics have diabetes, but just 7.5 percent of Asian Americans and 6.6 percent of whites.
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