USA - 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet
How many Americans have diabetes or pre-diabetes?- 8.5% of the US population have diabetes - 25.8 million children and adults.
Researchers from the Jefferson School of Population Health (Philadelphia, PA) published a study which estimates that by 2025 there could be 53.1 million people with the disease. (Link to article) - 18.8 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes
- About 7 million people with diabetes have not been diagnosed.
Even though type 2 diabetes rates in the USA have risen sharply, Timothy Lyons, MD, who is presently Director of Research of the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center in Oklahoma City says that the disease is still not being detected promptly. He added that the lag in diagnosis involves both patients and doctors. - About 79 million people have pre-diabetes
- 1.9 million people aged 20 years or more were newly diagnosed with diabetes in 2010
- 215,000 (0.26%) people younger than 20 years have diabetes
- Approximately 1 in every 400 kids and teenagers has diabetes
- 11.3% of people aged 20+ years have diabetes; a total of 25.6 million individuals
- 26.9% of people aged 65+ years have diabetes; a total of 10.9 million people
- 11.8% of men have diabetes; a total of 13 million people
- 10.8% of women have diabetes; a total of 12.6 million people
Diabetes In The United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom there are about 3.8 million people with diabetes, according to the National Health Service. Diabetes UK, a charity, believes this number will jump to 6.2 million by 2035, and the National Health Service will be spending as much as 17% of its health care budget on diabetes by then.Diabetes Spreads In Southeast Asia
Diabetes is rapidly spreading in Southeast Asia as people embrace American fast foods, such as hamburgers, hot dogs, French fries and pizza. More Chinese adults who live in Singapore are dying of heart disease and developing type 2 diabetes than ever before, researchers from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and the National University of Singapore reported in the journal Circulation.The authors found that Chinese adults in Singapore who eat American-style junk foods twice a week had a 56% greater risk of dying prematurely form heart disease, while their risk of developing type 2 diabetes rose 27%, compared to their counterparts who "never touched the stuff". There was a 80% higher likelihood of dying from coronary heart disease for those eating fast foods four times per week.