Erie County Statistics

According to the 2009 Erie County Health Profile, 8% or nearly 17,330 Erie County adult residents have been told by a healthcare provider that they have diabetes.

National Statistics

Prevalence of Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Diabetes in the United States, All Ages, 2007

Total: 23.6 million people—7.8 percent of the population—have diabetes.

Diagnosed: 17.9 million people
Undiagnosed: 5.7 million people

Prevalence of Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Diabetes among People Ages 20 Years or Older, United States, 2007

Age 20 years or older: 23.5 million, or 10.7 percent, of all people in this age group have diabetes.
Age 60 years or older: 12.2 million, or 23.1 percent, of all people in this age group have diabetes.

Men: 12 million, or 11.2 percent, of all men ages 20 years or older have diabetes.
Women: 11.5 million, or 10.2 percent, of all women ages 20 years or older have diabetes.
Non-Hispanic whites: 14.9 million, or 9.8 percent, of all non-Hispanic whites ages 20 years or older have diabetes.
Non-Hispanic blacks: 3.7 million, or 14.7 percent, of all non-Hispanic blacks ages 20 years or older have diabetes

Heart Disease and Stroke

In 2004, heart disease was noted on 68 percent of diabetes-related death certificates among people ages 65 years or older.
In 2004, stroke was noted on 16 percent of diabetes-related death certificates among people ages 65 years or older.
Adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates about two to four times higher than adults without diabetes.
The risk for stroke is two to four times higher among people with diabetes.

Blindness

Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults ages 20 to 74 years.
Diabetic retinopathy causes 12,000 to 24,000 new cases of blindness each year.

Kidney Disease

Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, accounting for 44 percent of new cases in 2005.
In 2005, a total of 178,689 people with end-stage kidney disease due to diabetes were living on chronic dialysis or with a kidney transplant in the United States and Puerto Rico.

Nervous System Disease

About 60 to 70 percent of people with diabetes have mild to severe forms of nervous system damage. The results of such damage include impaired sensation or pain in the feet or hands, slowed digestion of food in the stomach, carpal tunnel syndrome, erectile dysfunction, or other nerve problems.
Almost 30 percent of people with diabetes ages 40 years or older have impaired sensation in the feet—for example, at least one area that lacks feeling.
Severe forms of diabetic nerve disease are a major contributing cause of lower-extremity amputations.

Amputations

More than 60 percent of nontraumatic lower-limb amputations occur in people with diabetes.
In 2004, about 71,000 nontraumatic lower-limb amputations were performed in people with diabetes.

Dental Disease

Periodontal, or gum, disease is more common in people with diabetes. Among young adults, those with diabetes have about twice the risk of those without diabetes.
People with poorly controlled diabetes—A1C greater than 9 percent—were nearly three times more likely to have severe periodontitis than those without diabetes.
Almost one-third of people with diabetes have severe periodontal disease with loss of attachment of the gums to the teeth measuring 5 millimeters or more.

Total—direct and indirect: $174 billion

Direct medical costs: $116 billion

After adjusting for population age and sex differences, average medical expenditures among people with diagnosed diabetes were 2.3 times higher than what expenditures would be in the absence of diabetes.

Indirect costs: $58 billion—disability, work loss, premature mortality

Erie County Department of Health. (2009). Erie County Health Profile,2009.

National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse. National Diabetes Statistics, 2007. http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/DM/PUBS/statistics/