Products - Data Briefs - Number 319 - September 2018

One in seven U.S. adults has diabetes

An estimated 4 percent of adults in the U.S. don’t know that they have type 2 diabetes, according to new data just released by the CDC. Here’s a look at the numbers:

• Between 2013 and 2016, 14 percent of U.S. adults had any kind of diabetes. Of those, 9.7 percent had been diagnosed and 4.3 percent hadn’t.
• Diabetes grew more common with age. Just over 3 percent of adults ages 20 to 39 had diabetes, compared to 16 percent of adults ages 40 to 59 and 28 percent of adults age 60 and older.   
• The prevalence of diabetes was higher among men, 16 percent of whom had diabetes. Just over 12 percent of women had diabetes.