Health Day News — The prevalence of diabetes was 15.8% among US adults from August 2021 to August 2023, according to a November data summary published by the National Center for Health Statistics.

Jane A. Gwira, MD, MPH, of the National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence of diagnosed, undiagnosed, and total diabetes (excluding gestational diabetes). among US adults from August 2021 to August 2023.

The researchers found that the prevalence of total diabetes was 15.8%, and the prevalence rates of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes. diabetes were 11.3 and 4.5 percent, respectively, among US adults from August 2021 to August 2023. Men had a higher prevalence of total and diagnosed diabetes than women (18.0 and 12.9 percent versus 13.7 and 9.7 percent). With age and weight gain, there was an increase in overall, diagnosed and undiagnosed prevalence diabetes. Between 1999-2002 and August 2021 to August 2023, there was an increase in the age-adjusted prevalence of total and diagnosed diabetes.

“Slightly more than a quarter of adults with diabetes had undiagnosed diabetes,” the authors write. “Continued monitoring of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes will provide essential information about the prevalence of diabetes in adults in the United States.”

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