 Quick stats for Diabetes in the USA:
- 17 million to 20 million Americans have diabetes.
- The number of Americans with diabetes jumped 50 percent from 1990 to 2000.
- In ten years, over two million people will die from diabetes and over $1 trillion will be lost in direct and indirect costs due to diabetes.
- Since 1980, deaths related to diabetes increased 40 percent while the proportion of government funding for diabetes research at the National Institutes of Health dropped 20 percent.
- By 2010, ten percent of the population will have diagnosed diabetes.
- Health care costs attributed to diabetes are $100 billion annually.
- Approximately 800,000 new cases of diabetes are diagnosed each year.
- Diabetes is the main cause of kidney failure and new onset blindness, and it is a major cause of limb amputations, heart disease and stroke.
- Diabetes is the most frequent cause of non-traumatic lower limb amputations. Each year, 56,000 people lose a foot or leg to diabetes. The risk of a leg amputation is 15 to 40 times greater for a person with diabetes.
Diabetes and heart disease
Nearly two-thirds of people with diabetes die of heart disease or stroke. People with diabetes have the same cardiovascular risk as if they have already had a heart attack. People with diabetes are 70 percent more likely to die as a result of a heart attack than are those without diabetes. Women with diabetes are nearly three times more likely to die following a cardiovascular event than women who do not have diabetes.
Diabetes and kidney disease
Ten to 21 percent of all people with diabetes develop kidney disease. Among Native Americans, the rate of diabetic end stage renal disease is six times higher. Mexican Americans, the rate of diabetic end stage renal disease is between 4.5 to 6.6 times higher. African-Americans with diabetes are 2.6 to 5.6 times more likely to suffer from kidney disease with more than 4,000 new cases of end stage renal disease each year.
Diabetes and minorities
The prevalence of diabetes among African-Americans is almost twice that than of non-Hispanic Whites. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is 50 percent higher in Hispanics than non-Hispanic Whites. One Native American tribe in Arizona has the highest rate of diabetes in the world. About 50 percent of the adults between the ages of 30 and 64 have diabetes.
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