General Diabetes facts

29.1 million People, or 9.3% of the U.S. population, have diabetes, including 8.1 million
people who have diabetes but have not yet been diagnosed (All ages, 2012).

In 2012, 86 million Americans age 20 and older had prediabetes; this is up

from 79 million in 2010.

Approximately 1,055,253 people in Michigan, or 12.4% of the population,

have diabetes.

Diabetes kills more Americans every year than AIDS and breast cancer
combined.

As many as 1 in 3 American adults will have diabetes by 2050 if present

trends continue

A person with diagnosed diabetes at age 50 dies, on average, 6 years earlier

than a counterpart without diabetes

Diabetes complications:

Hypertension: In 20092012, of adults aged 18 years or older with

diagnosed diabetes, 71% had blood pressure greater than or equal to 140/90
millimeters of mercury or used prescription medications to lower high blood
pressure.

Cardiovascular: In 2003-2006, after adjusting for population age differences,

cardiovascular disease death rates were about 1.7 times higher among adults aged 18
years or older with diagnosed diabetes than among adults without diagnosed diabetes.

Vision: In 2005-2008, of adults with diabetes aged 40 years or older, 4.2

million (28.5%) people had diabetic retinopathy, damage to the small
blood vessels in the retina that may result in loss of vision.
In 2005-2008, of adults with diabetes aged 40 years or older, 655,000 (4.4%)
had advanced diabetes retinopathy that could lead to severe vision loss.
Amputation: In 2010, about 73,000 non-traumatic lower-limb
amputations were performed in adults aged 20 years or older with
diagnosed diabetes.
About 60% of non-traumatic lower-limb amputations among people aged 20
years or older occur in people with diagnosed diabetes.

Kidney Disease: Diabetes was listed as the primary cause of kidney

failure in 44% of all new cases in 2011.
In 2011, 49,677 people of all ages began treatment for kidney failure due to
diabetes. In 2011, a total of 228,924 people of all ages with kidney failure
due to diabetes were living on chronic dialysis or with a kidney transplant.

Specific to African Americans

Over 2.2 million or 13.2% African Americans aged 20 years or older have
diabetes; 1.5 million have been diagnosed and 730,000 have not yet been
diagnosed.
There are 4 times as many African Americans diagnosed with diabetes
today as there were in 1968.
African Americans are 1.7 times more likely to have diabetes as nonHispanic whites.
For every 6 white Americans who have diabetes, 10 African
Americans have the disease.
African-Americans are significantly more likely to suffer from blindness,
kidney disease and amputations.
Type 2 diabetes accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all African American
cases.
Among African Americans 20 years or older, 11.8 percent of women and
8.5 percent of men have diabetes
In just 12 years, national health surveys show that diabetes' prevalence
for African Americans ages 40 to 74 had doubled from 8.9 percent in
1976-1980 to 18.2 percent in 1988-1994. And it continues to climb.
Death rates for people with diabetes are 27 percent higher for blacks
compared with whites. Diabetes is the fifth leading cause of death for
those ages 45 years or older.
African Americans are more likely to develop diabetes complications
and experience greater disability from the complications than whites.
The frequency of diabetic retinopathy is 40 to 50 percent higher in
African Americans than in white Americans
African Americans with diabetes experience kidney failure (also called
end-stage renal disease) about four times more often than diabetic white
Americans.
In 2012, non-Hispanic blacks were 3.5 times more likely to be
hospitalized for lower limb amputations as compared to non-Hispanic
whites.

You can re-visit these facts online at:

American Diabetes Association: http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesbasics/type-2/?loc=db-slabnav
Dlife: http://www.dlife.com/diabetes/type-2/diabetes-causes/african-americandiabetes