Nearly 16% Of U.S. Adults Have Diagnosed Or Undiagnosed Diabetes

About 15.8% of adults in the United States had diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes during 2021 through 2023. According to analysis from the National Center for Health Statistics, the prevalence rate of diagnosed diabetes was 11.3%, and and the rate of undiagnosed diabetes was 4.5% among U.S. adults during the August 2021 to August 2023 time period. Undiagnosed diabetes is defined as the survey respondent reporting never having received a diabetes diagnosis from a healthcare provider and 8- to 24-hour fasting plasma glucose greater than or equal to 126 mg/dL or hemoglobin A1c greater than . . .