Table 2.
Estimated Number of U.S. Adults (Age ≥20 years) in Several Categories of Impaired Glucose Metabolism for 2007a
| Total population | Prediabetes (IFG/IGT) | Diabetes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undiagnosed (FG/OGTT)b | Diagnosed (self-report) | |||
| Non-Hispanic White | 151,789,928 | 44,474,449 | 8,500,236 | 10,018,135 |
| Non-Hispanic Black | 26,051,718 | 6,538,981 | 1,068,120 | 3,334,620 |
| Mexican American | 18,338,148 | 5,813,193 | 1,155,303 | 1,540,404 |
| Total | 196,179,794 | 56,826,623 | 10,723,659 | 14,893,159 |
Portions taken from Cowie and colleagues2 and applied to census data from the 2007 U.S. population (www.census.gov).
According to fasting glucose or the oral glucose tolerance test.