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# Diabetes Toll Worsens
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/diabetes_toll_worsens_0612141239/
- Published: 2014-06-12T13:36:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T18:12:13.000Z
- Description: A CDC report counted 29.1 million Americans with diabetes and 86 million adults with prediabetes in 2012, up from 25.8 million and 79 million in 2010. The agency puts the estimated annual cost at $245 billion.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Disease, Health News, #vivvo-import

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In 2012, 29.1 million Americans had diabetes and 86 million adults had prediabetes, according to a new [report](http://support.pcrm.org/site/R?i=eK7qDXnc2Exceed-uV9kkA&ref=foodconsumer.org) from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention.

In 2010, these statistics were 25.8 and 79 million, respectively. Diabetes patients are at an increased risk for heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney disease, and amputations, among other complications. The estimated annual cost of diabetes is $245 billion.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Diabetes Statistics Report: Estimates of Diabetes and Its Burden in the United States, 2014\. Atlanta, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2014.