These facts are taken directly from diabetes.org, whose mission is to “prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.”

Data from the 2007 National Diabetes Fact Sheet (the most recent year for which data is available)

Total: 23.6 million children and adults in the United States– 7.8% of the population — have diabetes.

Diagnosed: 17.9 million people

Undiagnosed: 5.7 million people

Pre-diabetes: 57 million people

New Cases: 1.6 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed in people aged 20 years and older each year.

Under 20 years of age:

• 186,300, 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
• 2 million adolescents (or 1 in 6 overweight adolescents) aged 12-19 have pre-diabetes

Age 20 years or older:

• 23.5 million, or 10.7% of all people in this age group have diabetes

Age 60 years or older:

• 12.2 million, or 23.1% of all people in this age group have diabetes

Men:

• 12.0 million, or 11.2% of all men aged 20 years or older have diabetes

Women:

• 11.5 million, or 10.2% of all women aged 20 years or older have diabetes

Sherman Health’s Diabetes Center is recognized by the American Diabetes Association as a Center of Excellence. We work with people who have diabetes, their families and physicians to develop an individual care plan to achieve and maintain lifestyle goals.

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