The drug metformin was found to reduce the risk of diabetes onset by 31 percent, particularly in younger and heavier prediabetic adults.

Having healthy levels of these three indicators greatly reduces your risk of diabetes. Work to achieve and maintain healthy levels of each. Get regular checks of your blood cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels. For overweight people, losing five to seven percent of body weight through exercise and healthy eating could prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes. For people 60 years or older, the reduction was 71 percent. The Diabetes Prevention Program found that weight loss and increased physical activity reduced the chance of prediabetes turning into type 2 diabetes by 58 percent. Catching complications early allows for intervention, education, and referral to a specialist when needed. Regular visits to a healthcare provider are also essential. This means following a healthy diet plan.

The most cost-effective methods include getting regular physical activity and maintaining a healthy weight. Across all ethnic groups though, type 2 diabetes is increasing around the age of puberty.īoth type 2 diabetes and its side effects can often be prevented or delayed. This is particularly true for Asian Pacific Islanders ages 10 to 19 years. Still, it has higher rates in many minority groups than in white people. Type 2 diabetes is rare for children of all racial and ethnic backgrounds. 8.5 percent for Central and South AmericansĪmerican Indian adults in southern Arizona have the world’s highest rate of type 2 diabetes.Currently, the rates of diagnosed diabetes are: Hispanics have a 12.8 percent higher risk, but this varies depending on national lineage. Non-Hispanic Black people have a 13.2 percent higher risk. These people include:Ĭompared to non-Hispanic white adults in the United States, Asian Americans have a nine percent higher risk of diabetes. In the United States, type 2 diabetes is more prevalent for certain groups than for white people. Statistics from The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and CDC show the risks for different groups: The risk is higher even after adjusting for other factors. In ethnic groupsĬertain racial or ethnic groups have higher rates of prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. If both parents have diabetes, the child’s risk is about 50 percent. The child’s risk may be greater if the mother has diabetes. If the parent was diagnosed after age 50, the child has a 1 in 13 chance. This risk decreases if the woman leads an active lifestyle and maintains an ideal weight.Ī child has a 1 in 7 chance of developing diabetes if one parent was diagnosed before age 50. The rest of these women have a 35 to 60 percent chance of developing type 2 diabetes within 10 to 20 years. In up to 10 percent of them, the mother is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes just after the pregnancy. This cost is expected to rise with the increasing diagnoses.Īccording to the CDC, 4.6 to 9.2 percent of pregnancies may be affected by gestational diabetes. Cases of diagnosed diabetes cost the United States an estimated $245 billion in 2012.For seniors (65 years and older), that figure rises to more than one in four.

More than one in every 10 adults who are 20 years or older has diabetes.

About 1.4 million new cases of diabetes are diagnosed in United States every year.

29.1 million people in the United States have diabetes, but 8.1 million may be undiagnosed and unaware of their condition.

Of this group, 9 out of 10 don’t know they have it.

Research suggests that 1 out of 3 adults has prediabetes.

The CDC also gives us the following information: In general According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), type 2 diabetes accounts for about 90 to 95 percent of all diagnosed cases of diabetes in adults. Type 2 diabetes is increasingly prevalent but also largely preventable.

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