Diabetes (%)
In 2007, approximately 23.6 million Americans had diabetes, a condition associated with several life threatening co-morbidities and complications such as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, kidney disease, nervous system disease, blindness and lower-limb amputations.1 Diabetes can be both prevented and controlled. People with pre-diabetes who lose weight and increase their physical activity can prevent or delay type-2 diabetes, and those already diagnosed with diabetes can reduce the occurrence of complications through a variety of preventive care practices.2
Diabetes continues to be most common among certain racial and ethnic minority groups, and the disease also has unique implications for women. The disease can affect both mothers and their unborn children and can cause difficulties during pregnancy.3 Women who develop diabetes in pregnancy (“gestational diabetes”) are more likely to develop type-2 diabetes later in life. The development of heart disease among diabetic women is also of particular concern. Women with type 2 diabetes are 27% more likely than men to develop cardiovascular problems.4
How many women are diagnosed with diabetes?
The Report Card benchmark is the Healthy People 2010 goal of reducing the overall rate of clinically diagnosed diabetes to no more than 25 overall cases per 1,000 people (when applied to women) [Healthy People 2010 Objective 5-3].
| State | State Overall Data | State Grade | State Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 11.5 | F | 49 |
| Alaska | 5.0 | S- | 1 |
| Arizona | 8.4 | F | 29 |
| Arkansas | 9.6 | F | 41 |
| California | 8.6 | F | 31 |
| Colorado | 5.5 | U | 2 |
| Connecticut | 5.6 | U | 5 |
| Delaware | 6.2 | U | 7 |
| District of Columbia | 8.1 | F | 25 |
| Florida | 9.2 | F | 40 |
| Georgia | 8.8 | F | 35 |
| Hawaii | 9.1 | F | 38 |
| Idaho | 7.8 | F | 21 |
| Illinois | 8.6 | F | 31 |
| Indiana | 8.8 | F | 35 |
| Iowa | 7.2 | F | 15 |
| Kansas | 8.3 | F | 28 |
| Kentucky | 11.3 | F | 48 |
| Louisiana | 10.6 | F | 45 |
| Maine | 7.9 | F | 23 |
| Maryland | 8.5 | F | 30 |
| Massachusetts | 7.0 | U | 11 |
| Michigan | 9.0 | F | 37 |
| Minnesota | 5.5 | U | 2 |
| Mississippi | 11.9 | F | 50 |
| Missouri | 7.8 | F | 21 |
| Montana | 7.0 | U | 11 |
| Nebraska | 7.4 | F | 18 |
| Nevada | 7.5 | F | 20 |
| New Hampshire | 6.4 | U | 8 |
| New Jersey | 8.2 | F | 26 |
| New Mexico | 8.6 | F | 31 |
| New York | 8.2 | F | 26 |
| North Carolina | 10.0 | F | 42 |
| North Dakota | 6.9 | U | 10 |
| Ohio | 10.0 | F | 42 |
| Oklahoma | 10.9 | F | 47 |
| Oregon | 7.2 | F | 15 |
| Pennsylvania | 9.1 | F | 38 |
| Rhode Island | 7.0 | U | 11 |
| South Carolina | 10.1 | F | 44 |
| South Dakota | 7.1 | U | 14 |
| Tennessee | 10.6 | F | 45 |
| Texas | 8.6 | F | 31 |
| Utah | 5.5 | U | 2 |
| Vermont | 6.0 | U | 6 |
| Virginia | 8.0 | F | 24 |
| Washington | 7.2 | F | 15 |
| West Virginia | 12.9 | F | 51 |
| Wisconsin | 7.4 | F | 18 |
| Wyoming | 6.5 | U | 9 |
Data Source: Diabetes (%), 2009.
EXPLANATION: This measure includes women age 18 and older in the non-institutionalized civilian population who reported ever being told by a doctor that they have diabetes. In the Report Card, the Healthy People 2010 goal was converted to a percentage (e.g., 25 per 1,000 was converted to 2.5 percent) to grade this indicator.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey Data (BRFSS), 2009, available at http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/brfss/index.asp and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Public Health and Science, Office on Women’s Health. Quick Health Data Online, 2010, Washington, DC, 2010, available at http://www.womenshealth.gov/quickhealthdata. The national overall number and national data by age are the median of 50 states and the District of Columbia. Data for race/ethnicity and age are three-year averages from 2007-2009 and are age-adjusted to the 2000 standard population.
Footnotes
1 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “2007 National Diabetes Fact Sheet,” (Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008), available at http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/pdf/ndfs_2007.pdf
2 Ibid.
3 American Diabetes Association, “Living with Diabetes: Women,” available at http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/complications/women/
4 American Diabetes Association, “Women with Type 2 Diabetes at Greater Risk for Cardiovascular Disease than Men with Type 2 Diabetes,” 2006, available at http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-research/summaries/Zandbergen-women-at-...
