13% of US Adults Live with Diabetes | CDC Update
The CDC has released its 2020 annual National Diabetes Statistics Report.
This report showed that diabetes in the U.S. in on the rise. Approximately 13% of adults live with diabetes, with cases rising from 9.5% in 2002 to 13% in 2016. Many (7.3 million) are unaware that they have diabetes, as determined by A1c levels or fasting plasma glucose.
The age-adjusted data indicate that diabetes diagnoses can trend higher depending on socioeconomic status, age, and ethnicity. For example, the percent of adults with diabetes increases with age. 26.8% of those over age 65 have diabetes and new cases of type 1 and type 2 have risen in younger people.
From 2002 to 2015, incidences of type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents rose, with the largest increases of type 2 diabetes among Black non-Hispanic youth.
The report also found that cases are highest among “Native Americans and Alaskan Natives at 14.7%, Hispanic adults at 12.5%, and black adults at 11.7%. The risk increases for those from a lower socioeconomic status.
“Specifically, 13.3% of adults with less than a high school education had diagnosed diabetes vs. 9.7% of those with a high school education and 7.5% of those with more than a high school education” the report states.
The CDC explains that by analyzing the “data from this report [we] can help focus critical type 2 diabetes prevention and diabetes management efforts across the nation.”
Read the full CDC report by clicking here.
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