Diabetes Mellitus Statistcs - Diabetes Statistics

Diabetes Mellitus Statistcs

Diabetes Mellitus Statistcs
American Heart Associaton

Diabetes mellitus killed 73,138 people in the United States in 2004. 2004 final mortality: males Û 35,267 deaths (48.2 percent of total deaths from diabetes); females Û 37,871 (51.8 percent of total deaths from diabetes).

15,100,000 U.S. adults have physician-diagnosed diabetes (about 7.6 million males and 7.5 million females).
1,500,000 new cases of diagnosed diabetes are diagnosed every year.
2004 death rates were 26.2 per 100,000 white males, 51.3 per 100,000 black males; 19.2 per 100,000 white females and 45.3 per 100,000 black females.
585,000 people diagnosed with diabetes mellitus were discharged from U.S. hospitals in 2005. Of these, 283,000 were males and 302,000 were females.
At least 65 percent of people with diabetes mellitus die of some form of heart disease or stroke.
The age-adjusted (2000 standard) prevalence of physician-diagnosed diabetes in adults age 18 and older is (NHANES [1999Ò2004], NCHS/NHLBI)...

For non-Hispanic whites, 6.7 percent of men and 5.6 percent of women.
For non-Hispanic blacks, 10.7 percent of men and 13.2 percent of women.
For Mexican Americans, 11.0 percent of men and 10.9 percent of women.
The percentage of adults age 18 and older who have been told they have diabetes is 13.6 percent of American Indians/Alaska Natives; 6.5 percent of Asians and 9.8 percent of Hispanics or Latinos (NHIS [2005], NCHS)

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