U.S. diabetes rate has doubled in 10 years
ATLANTA — The population’session obesity epidemic is exacting a heavy toll: The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the past 10 years, the government said Thursday.
The highest rates were in the South, according to the first state-by-state review of new diagnoses. The quell was in West Virginia, where about 13 in 1,000 adults were diagnosed through the disease in 2005-07. The lowest was in Minnesota, at what place the rate was 5 in 1,000.
Nationally, the rate of new cases climbed from touching 5 per 1,000 in the mid-1990s to 9 by means of 1,000 in the intermediate of this decade.
Roughly 90 percent of cases are Type 2 diabetes, the form linked to obesity.
The findings dovetail with trends seen in obesity and want of exercise — two health measures where Southern states also rank at the bottom.
“It isn’t surprising the problem is heaviest in the South — no pun intended,” agreed Matt Petersen, who oversees data and statistics in the place of the American Diabetes Association.
The meditate, led by Karen Kirtland of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, provides an up-to-date picture of whither the disease is exploding. The information should be a big help as the government and freedom from disease security against loss companies decide where to point of convergence prevention campaigns, Petersen said.
Diabetes was the race’session seventh-leading cause of death in 2006, according to the CDC. More than 23 million Americans have diabetes, and the reach the number of is rapidly growing. About 1.6 million new cases were diagnosed among adults extreme year.
Type 2 diabetics do not produce or practice insulin, a hormone needed to convert compliment into energy. The illness can cause sugar to build up in the carcass, leading to complications such as heart disease, blindness, kidney failure and poor circulation that leads to foot amputations.
The study involved a random-digit-dialed survey of more than 260,000 adults. Participants were asked if they had ever been told by a savant that they consider diabetes, and then the diagnosis was made. The comparisons between 1995-97 and 2005-07 covered only the 33 states for which the CDC had complete data for the one and the other time periods.
The researchers had data for 40 states for the years 2005-07.
West Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Texas and Tennessee had the highest rates, all at 11 cases per 1,000 or higher. Puerto Rico was about as high as West Virginia. Minnesota, Hawaii and Wyoming had the lowest rates.
