• One-quarter of adults with diabetes don’t know they have it.
• More than 200,000 children and teens have diabetes.
• Diabetes is about twice as common among blacks, Hispanics, American Indian and Alaskan native adults as among whites. But pre-diabetes rates are similar among racial and ethnic groups.
• Diabetes and its complications cost $245 billion in 2012, up from $174 billion in 2010.
2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet
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