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Diabetes

(Data are for the U.S.)

 

Morbidity

  • Percent of noninstitutionalized adults 20 years and older with diabetes (physician-diagnosed or undiagnosed): 10.7% (2003-2006)
  • Percent of noninstitutionalized adults 20 years and older with physician-diagnosed diabetes: 7.7% (2003-2006)
  • Percent of noninstitutionalized adults 20 years and older with undiagnosed diabetes: 3.0% (2003-2006)

Source: Health, United States, 2011, table 50 [PDF - 9.8 MB]

 

Health care use

Ambulatory care

  • Number of ambulatory care visits (to physician offices, hospital outpatient and emergency departments) with diabetes as primary diagnosis: 27.7 million

Source: Ambulatory Medical Care Utilization Estimates for 2007: table 6 [PDF - 797 KB]

Hospital inpatient care

  • Number of discharges with diabetes as first-listed diagnosis: 691,000
  • Average length of stay: 5.0 days

Source: National Hospital Discharge Survey: 2009 table, Average length of stay and days of care – Number and rate of discharges by first-listed diagnostic categories [PDF - 58 KB]

Home health care

  • Number of current patients with diabetes as primary diagnosis: 164,300 (2007)
  • Percent of current patients with diabetes as primary diagnosis: 11.3% (2007)

Source: Home Health Care and Discharged Hospice Care Patients: United States, 2000 and 2007, table 3 [PDF - 430 KB]

Nursing home care

  • Number of residents with diabetes: 362,000
  • Percent of residents with diabetes: 24.2%

Source: 2004 National Nursing Home Survey, Residents, table 33B [PDF - 719 KB]

 

Mortality

  • Number of deaths:  68,705
  • Deaths per 100,000 population: 22.4
  • Cause of death rank: 7

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2009, tables 9, 10, 11[PDF - 2.1 MB]

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