Diabetes Cases, Costs Expected to Soar By Caleb Hellerman, CNN Medical News senior producer CNN posted: 11 HOURS 27 MINUTES AGO filed under: Health News, National News Nov. 27) — The number of Americans with diabetes will nearly double in the next 25 years, and the costs of treating them will triple, according to a [...]

Data from the 2007 National Diabetes Fact Sheet (the most recent year for which data is available) Total: 23.6 million children and adults in the United States– 7.8% of the population — have diabetes. Diagnosed: 17.9 million people Undiagnosed: 5.7 million people Pre-diabetes: 57 million people New Cases: 1.6 million new cases of diabetes are [...]

The American Diabetes Association stated: 1. Every day, more than 4,000 adults are diagnosed with diabetes, and about 200 people die from the disease. About 24 million Americans have diabetes. It is one of the major causes of heart disease, stroke, new cases of adult blindness, and leg and foot amputations not caused by injury. [...]