Diabetes: The Numbers - Slide 13

African Americans & Diabetes

• 3.7 million; 14.7 % of all African Americans ages 20 and older have diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes

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

Note:

• 3.7 million or 14.7 percent of all non-Hispanic blacks aged 20 years or older have diagnosed and undiagnosed 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, 2007. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, 2008.