New Jersey Diabetes Profile

Diagnosed diabetes is prevalent across all 50 states and Washington, DC. People with diabetes are at high risk of heart disease, stroke, and other serious complications, such as kidney failure, blindness, and amputation of a toe, foot, or leg. CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation (DDT) focuses on preventing type 2 diabetes, reducing diabetes complications and disability, and reducing diabetes-related disparities, which are differences in health across geographic, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.

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Key Metrics in New Jersey
DDT Direct Funding to New Jersey
New Jersey Program Activities
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Key Metrics in New Jersey

$1M

Fiscal Year 2022 Funding

Nationally: $88.5M

693.2K

Total Diabetes Cases (Prevalence)

Nationally: 28.5M

N/A

New Diabetes Cases (Incidence)

Nationally: 1.4M

9.5%

Notified of Prediabetes

Nationally: 8.8%

8.9M

State Population

Nationally: 328.2M

$6.7B

per year in direct medical costs attributed to diabetes

Nationally: $237B

$2.5B

per year in indirect costs attributed to diabetes

Nationally: $90B

Does New Jersey Have a Diabetes Action Plan?

Yes

(28 States Nationally)

New Jersey Diabetes Action Plan

DDT Direct Funding to New Jersey

New Jersey receives funding and technical support from CDC to work to prevent and manage diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. States implement and evaluate evidence-based strategies to help people manage diabetes and prevent or delay onset of type 2 diabetes in high-burden populations and communities. See DP18-1815 for more information.

This cooperative agreement supports 10 national organizations that have affiliate program delivery sites to further build the National Diabetes Prevention Program infrastructure. These organizations work to increase the availability of the evidence-based lifestyle change program for groups that are underrepresented in the program relative to their disease burden and risk. These groups include Medicare beneficiaries; men; African American, Asian American, Hispanic, American Indian/Alaska Native, Pacific Islander persons; and people with visual or physical disabilities. Since 2018, 1 organization supported by funding from this cooperative agreement was delivering the program in New Jersey, including:

Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists

See DP17-1705 for more information.

New Jersey Program Activities

National Diabetes Prevention Program (National DPP)

CDC-recognized organizations offering the lifestyle change program

(2.1K Nationally)

Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program suppliers

(288 Nationally)

4.3K

Participants enrolled in the National DPP lifestyle change program

(583K Nationally)

New Jersey Medicaid program has some level of Medicaid coverage for the National DPP lifestyle change program

Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support (DSMES)

Recognized/accredited DSMES service providers

(2.1K Nationally)

30K

People with diabetes with at least one encounter at a recognized/accredited DSMES service

(929K Nationally)

New Jersey Highlights

The New Jersey Department of Health collaborated with the New Jersey Academy of Family Physicians to recruit health care practices to use a prediabetes screening smart phone application. The application identifies people with prediabetes and refers them to CDC-recognized organizations that deliver the National DPP lifestyle change program.
Between June 2020 and June 2021, five new recognized or accredited DSMES sites were established in the state of New Jersey.

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Page last reviewed: September 15, 2022

Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention