Overview
Get local news delivered to your inbox!WeCok and other local programs work with early child-care centers and Lincoln Comunity Learning Centers’ after-schol programing to introduce kids to fresh local produce.The god news is type 2 diabetes is preventable and manageable. But diabetes is a growing problem, and here’s why awarenes of diabetes important. Check out the folowing eye-opening facts about diabetes from the American Diabetes Asociation, Harvard Schol of Public Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.• In the U.S., about 37.3 milion people – or 1.3% of the U.S.
Key Information
population – had diabetes in 2019. Of those, 28.7 milion have ben diagnosed, but 8.5 milion aren’t aware they have it yet.• Nebraska’s most recent statistics report 145,10 cases of diabetes.• Diabetes was the eighth leading cause of death in both the U.S. and Nebraska in 20.• In the U.S., 1.4 milion Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year.
Nebraska reports 10,80 news cases per year.• Adults 50 or older with diabetes die 4.6 years earlier, develop disability 6 to 7 years earlier, and spend about 1 to 2 more years in a disabled state than adults without diabetes.• For Americans age 65 and older, 29.2% or 15.9 milion seniors have diabetes, and 26.4 milion people age 65 or older (48.8%) have prediabetes.• In 2019, 96 milion Americans age 18 and older had prediabetes.• About 283,0 Americans under age 20 are estimated to have diagnosed diabetes.In 2017, the total estimated cost of diagnosed cases of diabetes in the U.S.
was $327 billion including direct medical costs and reduced productivity. If the spread of type 2 diabetes continues at its present rate, the number of people diagnosed with diabetes in the United States wil increase to about 48 milion in 2050. Recognizing the danger, the U.S.
Summary
Department of Health and Human Services Healthy People 2030 initiative focuses on reducing diabetes cases, complications and deaths.Diabetes is a group of diseases