8 Out Of 100 Americans Are Diabetic!
A report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, based on data from 2007, says the number of Americans is about 24 million people, or about 8 percent of the US population. In the past 2 years the number has risen by about 3 million people, an increase of about 14 percent. Another 57 million people are pre-diabetic, that is they have blood sugar abnormalities which lead them to have a higher risk of becoming diabetic.
Part of the reason for this rise is because of increased awareness of this illness. Among adults, the elderly are most susceptible to this illness. Race-wise, American Indians and Alaskan natives had the highest incidence of diabetics (16.5%), followed by blacks (11.8 %) and Hispanics (10.4 %), which includes rates for Puerto Ricans (12.6 %), Mexican Americans (11.9 %), and Cubans (8.2 %), Asian Americans (7.5 % ) and whites (6.6%).
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