National American Diabetes Association Alert Day

About National American Diabetes Association Alert Day

• Diabetes affects about 30.3 million Americans or about 9.4 percent of the U.S. population.
• Nearly 1 in 4 adults living with diabetes, or 7.2 million Americans, are unaware that they have the disease.
• Another 84 million Americans have prediabetes, a condition in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.
• Nine out of 10 adults with prediabetes don’t know they have it.

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