In particular, diabetes has become the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services estimating in 2008 that fifty-seven million adults aged twenty and older were pre-diabetic, 23.6 million diabetic, with 90–95% of the latter being type 2-diabetic.
其中，糖尿病已成為美國的第七大死因，美國衛生及公共服務部在2008年估計，5700萬20歲以上的成年人患有前期的糖尿病，2360萬糖尿病患者，當中90％-95％是2型糖尿病。