Among Americans 30 and older, 13.7 percent of men and 11.9 percent of women have diabetes. Almost one-third of them have never received a diagnosis of the disease.
Data is presented for the 30-59 age group and the 60 and above group. Vermont has the lowest rate of diabetes in the nation (6.1% / 19.9%) while Mississippi leads the pack (11.4% / 27.7%).
“Visually it’s very clear what we found — the stark difference between the Southeast and the rest of the country,” said the lead author, Goodarz Danaei, a research fellow in epidemiology at Harvard. “The Southern States have a very dangerous aggregation of risk factors for heart disease: obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes.”
More men than women have diabetes in every state, and the gap is sometimes large. In Minnesota, for example, almost 12 percent of men have the disease, but only 8 percent of women. The variation among races is also stark. Nationally, about 18 percent of blacks and 16 percent of Hispanics have diabetes, compared with 11 percent of whites.
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Data is presented for the 30-59 age group and the 60 and above group. Vermont has the lowest rate of diabetes in the nation (6.1% / 19.9%) while Mississippi leads the pack (11.4% / 27.7%).
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Finally, clickherefor a special feature entitled "Patient Voices: Type 2 Diabetes"
Please, no e-mails regarding the use use of "blacks" instead of "African Americans" -- they're not my words, but simply a copied paragraph from the article.
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