Diabetes by the Numbers

by stltoday.com

$116 billion: Annual cost of treating diabetes in the U.S.

18.8 million: Americans diagnosed

7 million: Estimated number of undiagnosed cases

231,404: Deaths caused by diabetes in 2007

27 percent: Americans older than 65 who have diabetes

26 percent: People with diabetes who take insulin

Source: American Diabetes Association

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