Diabetes Crisis Amongst Asian Americans

United States’ Diabetes Crisis among Asian Americans:

Today and Future Trends

A recently released study2 and the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet6 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predict a dramatic increase in diabetes between 2010 and 2050. Using this new information from the CDC, the Institute for Alternative Futures diabetes model estimates that the number of Asian Americans living with diabetes (diagnosed and undiagnosed) in America will increase 103% by 2025 from 1,383,400 to 2,804,100.1 The resulting medical and societal cost of diabetes will be $27.4 billion – a 111% increase from 2010.1

Type 2 diabetes is becoming a common disease for many adults, and it is even beginning to affect school-aged children. Asian Americans have about an 18% higher risk of diagnosed diabetes than non-Hispanic whites,6 though some Asian ethnic groups have a somewhat lower risk.23 Then again, Asians are 20% less likely to die from diabetes than non-Hispanic whites.23 However, diabetes can be responsible for complications such as renal failure, lower extremity amputations, blindness, heart attacks and strokes.6

In 2010, almost 1,383,400 Asian Americans living in the United States had diabetes.1 Some 514,000 of them were undiagnosed1 and possibly beginning to suffer from the common complications of diabetes, including eye, kidney, lower extremity, and heart damage.3 The overall cost of diabetes among Asian Americans in the United States, including medical expenses and lost productivity, was about $13 billion in 2010.1

www.altfutures.org/diabetes2025

http://www.altfutures.org/pubs/diabetes2025/US_Diabetes2025_AsianAmericans_BriefingPaper_2011.pdf

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