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Diabetes Foot Facts
PREVALENCE OF DIABETES
TOTAL: 20.8 million people – Seven percent of the U.S. population
has diabetes.
DIAGNOSED: 14.6 million people
UNDIAGNOSED: 6.2 million people
PREVALENCE OF DIABETES AMONG PEOPLE
20 YEARS OR OLDER
AGE 20 YEARS OR OLDER: 20.6
million. Nine percent of all people in
this age group have diabetes.
AGE 60 YEARS OR OLDER: 10.3
million. Almost 21 percent
of all people in this age group
have diabetes.
MEN: 10.9
million. Close to 11 percent
of all men aged 20 years or
older have diabetes.
WOMEN: 9.7
million. Nearly nine percent
of all women aged 20 years
or older have diabetes. The
prevalence of diabetes is at
least 2 to 4 times higher among
non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic/Latino
American women than among non-Hispanic
white women.
PREVALENCE OF DIABETES BY RACE/ETHNICITY
AMONG PEOPLE 20 YEARS OR OLDER
AFRICAN-AMERICANS: 3.2 million. Close to 13 percent of all non-Hispanic
blacks aged 20 years or older have diabetes. On average, non-Hispanic
blacks are 1.8 times more likely to have diabetes than non-Hispanic
whites of similar age.
HISPANIC/LATINO-AMERICANS: 2.5 million. Nearly ten percent of Hispanic/Latino
Americans aged 20 years or older have diabetes. Mexican Americans,
the largest Hispanic/Latino subgroup, are 1.7 times as likely to
have diabetes as non-Hispanic whites. Residents of Puerto Rico
are 1.8 times as likely to have diagnosed diabetes as U.S. non-Hispanic
whites.
CAUCASIAN-AMERICANS : 13.1 million. Close to nine percent of all
non-Hispanic whites aged 20 years or older have diabetes.
COMPLICATIONS OF DIABETES
AMPUTATIONS
∑ More than 60 percent of non-traumatic lower-limb amputations in the United
States occur among people with diabetes.
∑ In 2002, nearly 82,000 non-traumatic lower-limb amputations were performed
among people with diabetes.
∑ Non-Hispanic blacks are 2.7 times as likely to suffer from lower-limb
amputations as non-Hispanic whites.
PREVENTING DIABETES COMPLICATIONS
A podiatric physician, a doctor focusing on the treatment of diabetic
foot and ankle maladies, plays an integral role in a diabetes
management team. Diabetes can affect many parts of the body and
can lead to serious complications such as blindness, kidney damage,
and lower-limb amputations. Working together, people with diabetes
and their health care providers, such as a podiatric physician,
can reduce the occurrence of these and other diabetes complications.
Comprehensive foot care programs can reduce
amputation rates by 45 percent to 85 percent.
Research in the United States and abroad
has found that lifestyle changes can prevent
or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes among
high-risk adults. Lifestyle interventions
included diet and moderate-intensity physical
activity, such as walking for 2.5 hours each
week.
Information for this fact sheet has been
compiled using the latest statistics from
the American Diabetes Association and Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
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