Diabetes mellitus killed 75,119 people in the United States in 2005.

2005 final mortality from diabetes: males — 36,538 deaths (48.2 percent of total deaths from diabetes); females — 38,581 (51.4 percent of total deaths from diabetes).

• 17,000,000 U.S. adults have physician-diagnosed diabetes (about 7.5 million males and 9.5 million females).
• 1,600,000 new cases of diagnosed diabetes are diagnosed every year.
• 2005 death rates were 26.5 per 100,000 white males, 50.8 per 100,000 black males; 19.3 per 100,000 white females and 43.8 per 100,000 black females. 
• 584,000 people diagnosed with diabetes mellitus were discharged from U.S. hospitals in 2006. Of these, 283,000 were males and 301,000 were females.
• At least 65 percent of people with diabetes mellitus die of some form of heart disease or stroke.
• The age-adjusted (2000 standard) prevalence of physician-diagnosed diabetes in adults age 20 and older is (NHANES [2003–06], NCHS/NHLBI)...
  
  • For non-Hispanic whites, 5.8 percent of men and 6.1 percent of women.
  • For non-Hispanic blacks, 14.9 percent of men and 13.1 percent of women.
  • For Mexican Americans, 11.3 percent of men and 14.2 percent of women.
• The percentage of adults age 18 and older who have been told they have diabetes is 17.2 percent of American Indians/Alaska Natives; 8.9 percent of Asians and 11.1 percent of Hispanics or Latinos (NHIS [2007], NCHS).

Related AHA publications:

• Know the Facts, Get the Stats
• Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke (also in Spanish)
• Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics Update

See the latest statistics on diabetes.