Nearly 1 in 3 American adolescents have prediabetes, a CDC report finds. An official notes "it’s not too late to change ...

To analyze the prevalence of diabetes among U.S. adults 20 and older, CDC researchers reviewed data from 1999-2000 and from August 2021-August 2023.

The new data, collected from mid-2021 through mid-2023, found a big rise in diabetes rates since 1999-2000, when 9.7% of adult Americans had the disease.

The CDC said nearly 16% of American adults have diabetes, with the vast majority being Type 2 diabetes. The best action movie of all time, based on data—and see if your favorite made the top 100 ...

These new data represent notable increases since the CDC's 2019 Report Card, which gave the US population with diabetes in 2018 as 34.2 million, or 10.5% of the population, including 7.3 million ...

In 2023, 18% of men and 13.7% of women had diabetes, according to CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). About 95% of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, the data showed.

The CDC's previous estimates were based on data from 2010, and suggested that 26 million people in the United States had diabetes, and that 79 million more had prediabetes.

The CDC's latest diabetes statistics indicate that 9.3% of the US population now has diabetes, with 1 in 4 being unaware of this fact.