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Diabetes — United States, 2006 and 2010

	Supplement Volume 62, Supplement, No. 3 November 22, 2013 PDF of this issue

Diabetes — United States, 2006 and 2010

Supplements

November 22, 2013 / 62(03);99-104

Gloria L. Beckles, MD

Chiu-Fang Chou, DrPH

Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Corresponding author: Gloria L. Beckles, Division of Diabetes Translation, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC. Telephone: 770-488-1272; E-mail: glb4@cdc.gov.

Introduction

In 2011, an estimated 26 million persons aged ≥20 years (11.3% of the U.S. population) had diabetes (1). Both the prevalence and incidence of diabetes have increased rapidly since the mid-1990s, with minority racial/ethnic groups and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups experiencing the steepest increases and most substantial effects from the disease (2–5).
This analysis and discussion of diabetes is part of the second CDC Health Disparities and Inequalities Report (CHDIR). The 2011 CHDIR (6) was the first CDC report to assess disparities across a wide range of diseases, behavioral risk factors, environmental exposures, social determinants, and health-care access. The 2011 CHDIR report discussed the magnitude and patterning of absolute and relative measures of disparity in the prevalence and incidence rate of medically diagnosed diabetes during 2004 and 2008 and identified marked disparities in terms of race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, disability status, and geography (7). The topic presented in this report is based on criteria that are described in the 2013 CHDIR Introduction (8). This report updates information on disparities in prevalence and incidence rates of diagnosed diabetes presented in the 2011 CHDIR. The purposes of this report are to discuss and raise awareness about group differences in the level of diagnosed diabetes and to prompt actions to reduce these disparities.