Fact or Fiction??

The Big Picture

Diabetes
Fast FACTS

• More than 34 million people in the United States have diabetes, and 1 in 5 of them don’t know they have it.
  
  
• More than 88 million US adults—over a third—have prediabetes, and more than 84% of them don’t know they have it.
  
  
• Diabetes is the 7th leading cause of death in the United States (and may be underreported).
  
  
• Type 2 diabetes accounts for approximately 90% to 95% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes; type 1 diabetes accounts for approximately 5-10%.
  
  
• In the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than doubled as the American population has aged and become more overweight or obese.