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CDC: About 8 percent of Americans have diabetes

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-06-25 20:41

ATLANTA -- The number of Americans with diabetes has grown to about 24 million people, or roughly 8 percent of the US population, the US government said Tuesday.

A diabetic patient injects himself with insulin at the J.W.C.H. safety-net clinic in the center of Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles July 30, 2007. New government estimates show that nearly 24 million people in the United States have diabetes, an increase of more than 3 million in two years. [Agencies]

A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on data from 2007, said the number represents an increase of about 3 million over two years. The CDC estimates another 57 million people have blood sugar abnormalities called pre-diabetes, which puts people at increased risk for the disease.

The percentage of people unaware that they have diabetes fell from 30 percent to 25 percent, according to the study.

Dr. Ann Albright, director of the CDC Division of Diabetes Translation, said the report has "both good news and bad news."

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