Diabetes: The Numbers - Slide 12

African Americans and Diabetes

• 13.3 percent of all African Americans have diabetes

• African Americans are 1.8 times as likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic whites

Note:

• 3.2 million or 13.3 percent of all non-Hispanic blacks aged 20 years or older have diabetes.

• African Americans are 1.8 times as likely to have diabetes as non-Hispanic whites.

Reference

National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. National Diabetes Statistics fact sheet: general information and national estimates on diabetes in the United States, 2005. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 2005.