National Diabetes Association Alert Day

Quick facts:

-Diabetes affects about 34.2 million Americans or about 10.5 percent of the U.S. population.

-Nearly 1 in 5 adults living with diabetes, or 7.3 million Americans, are unaware that they have the disease.

-Approximately 88 million people aged 18 years or older have prediabetes, a condition in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes.

-An additional 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes each year.