Prevalence and Incidence of Diabetes
Prevalance of Diabetes:
16 million Americans with 10.3 million diagnosed and 8.1 million women (NWHIC); 65 per 1000 - NHIS95; 8 million - perhaps 16 million if include not-yet-diagnosed. ... see also overview of Diabetes.
Prevalance Rate:
approx 1 in 17 or 5.88% or 16 million people in USA [Source statistic for calcuation: "16 million Americans with 10.3 million diagnosed and 8.1 million women (NWHIC); 65 per 1000 - NHIS95; 8 million - perhaps 16 million if include not-yet-diagnosed." -- see also general information about data sources]
Prevalance of types of Diabetes:
For details see prevalence of types of Diabetes analysis; summary of available prevalence data:
Diabetes Prevalence: Book Excerpts
Incidence (annual) of Diabetes:
approximately 798,000 new cases diagnosed annually in USA (CDC-OC) ... see also overview of Diabetes.
Incidence Rate:
approx 1 in 340 or 0.29% or 798,000 people in USA [Source statistic for calcuation: "approximately 798,000 new cases diagnosed annually in USA (CDC-OC)" -- see also general information about data sources]
Incidence extrapolations for USA for Diabetes:
797,999 per year,
66,499 per month,
15,346 per week,
2,186 per day,
91 per hour,
1 per minute,
0 per second.
[Source statistic for calculation: "approximately 798,000 new cases diagnosed annually in USA (CDC-OC)" -- see also general information about data sources]
Incidence of types of Diabetes:
For details see incidence of types of Diabetes analysis; summary of available incidence by type data:
Undiagnosed prevalence of Diabetes:
5.7 million Americans (based on NWHIC) ... see also misdiagnosis of Diabetes.
Undiagnosed prevalence rate:
approx 1 in 47 or 2.10% or 5.7 million people in USA [about data] ... Note: this rate calculation uses the following statistic: 5.7 million Americans (based on NWHIC)
Undiagnosed prevalence statistics about Diabetes:
The following statistics relate to undiagnosed cases of Diabetes:
- Estimated 5.2 million people have undiagnosed diabetes in the US 2002 (National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet, NIDDK, 2003)
- 730,000 African Americans are unaware they have diabetes in America (CBCF Health Organisation, 2004)
- Half of the estimated 1 million people with diabetes were unaware of that they had diabetes in Australia 2001 (Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- more undiagnosed causes...»
Prevalance of Diabetes:
According to recent estimates, the
prevalence of diabetes in the United States is predicted to be 8.9 percent
of the population by 2025.
(Source: excerpt from Diabetes Overview: NIDDK)
...
About 16 million Americans have diabetes, but only about 10 million
have been diagnosed. (Source: excerpt from Facts About Diabetes: CDC-OC)
Worldwide prevalence of Diabetes:
135 million cases worldwide 1995
Prevelance of Diabetes discussion:
Facts About Diabetes: CDC-OC (Excerpt)
The number of persons diagnosed with diabetes has increased sixfold,
from 1.6 million in 1958 to 10 million in 1997. Diabetes is the nation's
seventh leading killer and contributed to about 187,800 deaths in 1995.
(Source: excerpt from Facts About Diabetes: CDC-OC)
Diabetes Statistics in the United States: NIDDK (Excerpt)
Total: 15.7 million people--5.9 percent
of the population--have diabetes.
Diagnosed: 10.3 million people
Undiagnosed: 5.4
million people
(Source: excerpt from
Diabetes Statistics in the United States: NIDDK)
Diabetes Statistics in the United States: NIDDK (Excerpt)
Prevalence of diabetes by age
Age 65 years or older: 6.3 million. 18.4
percent of all people in this age group have diabetes.
Age 20 years or older:15.6 million. 8.2 percent of all people
in this age group have diabetes.
Under age 20: 123,000. 0.16 percent of all people in this age
group have diabetes. (Source: excerpt from Diabetes Statistics in the United States: NIDDK)
Diabetes Statistics in the United States: NIDDK (Excerpt)
"Other specific types" of diabetes result from specific genetic
syndromes, surgery, drugs, malnutrition, infections, and other illnesses.
Such types of diabetes may account for 1 to 2 percent of all diagnosed
cases of diabetes.
(Source: excerpt from Diabetes Statistics in the United States: NIDDK)
Diabetes Statistics in the United States: NIDDK (Excerpt)
Between the 1995 and 1997
fact sheets, the number of persons with diagnosed diabetes increased from
8 million to 10.3 million, but the number of persons with undiagnosed
diabetes decreased. (Source: excerpt from Diabetes Statistics in the United States: NIDDK)
Incidence of Diabetes:
Approximately 798,000 new cases of diabetes are
diagnosed annually in the United States. (Source: excerpt from Facts About Diabetes: CDC-OC)
...
New cases diagnosed per year: 798,000.
(Source: excerpt from Diabetes Statistics in the United States: NIDDK)
Prevelance statistics for Diabetes:
The following statistics relate to the prevalence of Diabetes:
- 18.2 million people have diabetes in the US 2002 (National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet, NIDDK, 2003)
- Estimated 6.3% of population have diabetes in the US 2002 (National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet, NIDDK, 2003)
- Estimated 13 million people have been diagnosed with diabetes in the US 2002 (National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet, NIDDK, 2003)
- Estimated 5.2 million people have undiagnosed diabetes in the US 2002 (National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet, NIDDK, 2003)
- more statistics...»
Incidence statistics for Diabetes:
The following statistics relate to the incidence of Diabetes:
- 32,600 new cases of diabetes in Australia 1999-2002 (The National Diabetes Register, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- 1.3 million people over 20 developed diabetes annually in the US 2002 (National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet, NIDDK, 2003)
- more statistics...»
Types of Diabetes
Statistics about types of Diabetes:
- Type 2 Diabetes accounts for 85-90% of all diabetes cases in Australia (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003)
- Type 1 Diabetes accounts for 10-15% of all diabetes cases in Australia (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2003)
- Type 1 diabetes accounted for 28% of new cases of diabetes in Australia 1999-2002 (The National Diabetes Register, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- Type 2 diabetes accounted for 60% of new cases of diabetes in Australia 1999-2002 (The National Diabetes Register, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- gestational diabetes accounted for 9% of new cases of diabetes in Australia 1999-2002 (The National Diabetes Register, Australia’s Health 2004, AIHW)
- more types...»
Death statistics for Diabetes:
The following statistics relate to deaths and Diabetes:
- 31,602 male deaths in the USA 2000 (American Heart Association, 2002)
- Diabetes was the underlying cause of 69,301 deaths in the US 2000 (National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet, NIDDK, 2003)
- Diabetes contributed to 213,062 deaths in the US 2000 (National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet, NIDDK, 2003)
- Risk of death for diabetics is twice that of those without diabetes in the US (National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet, NIDDK, 2003)
- 71,372 people died from diabetes each year in the US 2001 (Deaths: Final Data for 2001, NCHS, CDC)
- 25.1 people per 100,000 population died from diabetes each year in the US 2001 (Deaths: Final Data for 2001, NCHS, CDC)
- more statistics...»
More Statistics about Diabetes:
Deaths and related statistics
Hospitalization statistics
Cost statistics
All statistics for Diabetes
Medical news summaries about incidence of Diabetes:
The following medical news items
are relevant to the incidence of Diabetes:
Prevalence/Incidence of Diabetes: Online Medical Books
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Hereditary fructose intolerance:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Transmitted as an autosomal recessive trait, hereditary fructose intolerance results from a deficiency in the enzyme fructose-1-phosphate aldolase. The enzyme operates at only 1% to 10% of its normal biological activity, thus preventing rapid uptake of fructose by the liver after ingestion of fruit or foods containing cane sugar.
In some European countries, hereditary fructose intolerance may have an incidence as high as 1 in 20,000 people.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Diabetes mellitus:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
DM affects an estimated 6% of the population of the United States, about half of whom are undiagnosed. Incidence is greater in females and rises with age. Type 2 accounts for 90% of cases.
In type 1 diabetes, pancreatic beta-cell destruction or a primary defect in beta-cell function results in failure to release insulin and ineffective glucose transport. Type 1 immune-mediated diabetes is caused by cell-mediated destruction of pancreatic beta cells. The rate of beta-cell destruction is usually higher in children than in adults. The idiopathic form of type 1 diabetes has no known cause. Patients with this form have no evidence of autoimmunity and don’t produce insulin.
In type 2 diabetes, beta cells release insulin, but receptors are insulin-resistant and glucose transport is variable and ineffective. Risk factors for type 2 diabetes include:
❑ obesity (even an increased percentage of body fat primarily in the abdominal region); risk decreases with weight and drug therapy
❑ lack of physical activity
❑ history of GDM
❑ hypertension
❑ Black, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, Asian American, Native American origin
❑ strong family history of diabetes
❑ older than age 45
❑ high-density lipoprotein cholesterol of less than 35 or triglyceride of greater than 250
❑ Seriously impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) test.
ELDER TIP As the body ages, the cells become more resistant to insulin, thus reducing the older adult’s ability to metabolize glucose. In addition, the release of insulin from the pancreatic beta cells is reduced and delayed. These combined processes result in hyperglycemia. In the older patient, sudden concentrations of glucose cause increased and more prolonged hyperglycemia.
The “other specific types” of DM result from various conditions (such as a genetic defect of the beta cells or endocrinopathies) or from use of or exposure to certain drugs or chemicals. GDM is considered present whenever a patient has any degree of abnormal glucose during pregnancy. This form may result from weight gain and increased levels of estrogen and placental hormones, which antagonize insulin.
Insulin transports glucose into the cell for use as energy and storage as glycogen. It also stimulates protein synthesis and free fatty acid storage in the fat deposits. Insulin deficiency compromises the body tissues’access to essential nutrients for fuel and storage.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Diabetes insipidus:
Causes and incidence
(Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition))
Diabetes insipidus results centrally from intracranial neoplastic or metastatic lesions, hypophysectomy or other neurosurgery, a skull fracture, or head trauma that damages the neurohypophyseal structures. It can also result nephrogenically from infection, granulomatous disease, and vascular lesions; it may be idiopathic and, rarely, familial. (Note: Pituitary diabetes insipidus shouldn’t be confused with nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, a rare congenital disturbance of water metabolism that results from renal tubular resistance to vasopressin.)
Normally, the hypothalamus synthesizes vasopressin. The posterior pituitary gland (or neurohypophysis) stores vasopressin and releases it into general circulation, where it causes the kidneys to reabsorb water by making the distal tubules and collecting duct cells water-permeable. The absence of vasopressin in diabetes insipidus allows the filtered water to be excreted in the urine instead of being reabsorbed.
Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus involves a defect in the parts of the kidneys that reabsorb water back into the bloodstream. It occurs less commonly than central diabetes insipidus. Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus may occur as an inherited disorder in which male children receive the abnormal gene that causes the disease on the X chromosome from their mothers. Nephrogenic diabetes insipidus may also be caused by diseases of the kidney (such as polycystic kidney disease) and the effects of certain drugs (such as lithium and amphotericin B).
Diabetes insipidus is rare, affecting 1 in 25,000 people. Males and females are affected equally.
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Source: Professional Guide to Diseases (Eighth Edition), 2005
Diabetes Mellitus:
Diabetes Mellitus - epidemiology
(The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult)
- Most common endocrine disorder of childhood
- Type 1 DM: More common in whites of Northern European descent
- Type 2 DM: More common in obese African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans with strong family history
Diabetes Mellitus - incidence
- Type 1 DM:
- Annual US incidence is ~19/100,000 in children 10–19 years old.
- Incidence of type 1 DM is rising by 3% per year, but faster in young children.
- Type 2 DM:
- Incidence is increasing rapidly in adolescents.
- May be 8–45% of new cases of diabetes in youth, depending on location
Diabetes Mellitus - prevalence
- Type 1 DM: Prevalence of type 1 diabetes in youth 0–19 years in US is ~2/1,000.
- Type 2 DM:
- Estimated prevalence of type 2 DM in youth of 4.1/1,000
- Estimated prevalence of impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) in youth at least 2/1,000
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Source: The 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, 2008
About prevalence and incidence statistics:
The term 'prevalence' of Diabetes usually refers to the estimated population
of people who are managing Diabetes at any given time.
The term 'incidence' of Diabetes refers to the annual diagnosis rate,
or the number of new cases of Diabetes diagnosed each year.
Hence, these two statistics types can differ:
a short-lived disease like flu can have high annual incidence but low prevalence,
but a life-long disease like diabetes has a low annual incidence but high prevalence.
For more information see about prevalence and incidence statistics.
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