Step Out Walk to End Diabetes

Where Passion Hits the Pavement!

Join the American Diabetes Association® (ADA) along with your friends, family, and colleagues as we walk in support of people living with diabetes. Step Out® Walk is the ADA’s premier walking fundraising event that creates a sense of unity and shared purpose in the fight to end diabetes. This event increases awareness, connects communities, contributes to diabetes prevention and management, and supports the ADA’s vision of life free of diabetes and all its burdens.

Burden of Diabetes in Hawaii:

Diabetes is an epidemic in the US. According to the CDC, over 38 million Americans have diabetes and face its devastating consequences. What’s true nationwide is also true in Hawaii. Obesity is linked to up to 53 percent of new cases of type 2 diabetes each year. Treating the chronic disease of obesity can help prevent, delay, and even result in diabetes remission.

Hawaii Diabetes Epidemic:

• Approximately 108,600 adults in Hawaii, or 9.5% of the adult population, have diagnosed diabetes.
• Every year, an estimated 6,700 adults in Hawaii are diagnosed with diabetes.
• Approximately 295,100 adults in Hawaii, or 25.9% of the adult population, have obesity.

Diabetes is expensive:

Medical expenses are approximately 2.6 times higher than those who do not have diabetes. And the total estimated cost of diagnosed diabetes in the U.S. (2022) was $412.9 billion, including $306.6 billion in direct medical costs and $106.3 billion in reduced productivity attributable to diabetes.

In 2017 it was estimated that:

• Total direct medical expenses for diagnosed diabetes in Hawaii was $1 billion.
• Total indirect costs from lost productivity due to diabetes was $465 million.
• Total cost of diabetes was $1.5 billion.

Obesity is expensive:

Americans with obesity had related medical care costs of an estimated $173 billion in 2019. Having obesity more than doubles an individual’s health care costs and out-of-pocket cost for care.

• A person with obesity with employer-provided health insurance had an average of $12,588 in total yearly health costs, compared to $4,699 for w/o.
• In 2021, a person with obesity with employer-provided health insurance faced an avg of $1,487 in out-of-pocket costs, compared to $698 for those without obesity.