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Women and Diabetes April, 2003
Prevalence
• Nationally, diagnosed diabetes (*including gestational diabetes) among women has increased almost 50 percent over the past decade.[i]
• Approximately 2% - 5% of all pregnancies in the US are complicated by diabetes.[ii]
• Over 290,000 (9.7%) adult Kentuckians have diabetes, one third of whom are undiagnosed.
• Diabetes prevalence in Kentucky is increasing. In 2001, 6.7% of the adult population in Kentucky had been told by a doctor they had diabetes.
• Among women in Kentucky diabetes prevalence has increased from 4.0% in 1995 to 6.4% in 2001.
Source: Kentucky Department of Public Health, BRFSS, 2001
• Women with less than a high school education have a higher prevalence of diabetes than women with more education.
*Gestational Diabetes is defined as being told by a doctor that you have diabetes only during pregnancy.
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Source: Kentucky Department for Public Health, BRFSS, 2001.
• Diabetes occurs among all ages and races, but the elderly and certain racial groups, such as African-Americans, are affected disproportionately.
• The national prevalence of diabetes is at least 2 – 4 times higher among black, Hispanic, American Indian, and Asian/Pacific Islander women than among white women.[iii]
• More African-American women in Kentucky have diabetes than white women.[iv]
Source: Kentucky Department for Public Health, BRFSS, 2001.
• The prevalence of diabetes increases as women age, with the highest prevalence among women aged 55 and over.
Source: Kentucky Department for Public Health, BRFSS 2001
• The prevalence of diabetes is higher in rural Kentucky than urban.
Source: Kentucky Department of Public Health, BRFSS.
• In 2001, Cumberland Valley ADD had the highest prevalence of diabetes with 9.7 percent, while the Bluegrass ADD had the lowest prevalence at 4 percent.[v]
• One in every two adult Kentuckians is at increased risk of developing diabetes due to risk factors such as age, obesity, and sedentary lifestyle.
• Obesity rates for women in Kentucky have risen from 12.7 percent in 1990 to 23.6 percent in 2001.[vi]
• In 2001, 36.3 percent of adult women in Kentucky reported no physical activity in the prior month, compared to 28.1 percent of women nationwide.[vii]
Mortality and Morbidity
• Diabetes was the 4th leading cause of death for black women in Kentucky and the 7th leading cause of death for white women in 2000.
Source: Kentucky Department of Public Health, 2000 Kentucky Annual Vital Statistics Report.
• For all age groups, more women than men were hospitalized in Kentucky in 2000, with a primary diagnosis of diabetes.[viii]
• In Kentucky, 13 percent of all hospitalizations had diabetes listed as the primary or secondary reason for admission.[ix]
• Women are at greater risk for blindness due to diabetes than men.[x]
• Diabetes is a major contributor to health problems such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney disease, and non-traumatic leg and foot amputations.[xi]
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[i] CDC Press Release: CDC to Convene Task Force on Diabetes and Women, October 22, 2001.
[ii] Beckles, GLA, Thompson-Reid PE, editors. Diabetes and Women’s Health Across the Life Stages: A Public Health Perspective. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Diabetes Translation, 2001.
[iii] Beckles, GLA, Thompson-Reid PE, editors. Diabetes and Women’s Health Across the Life Stages: A Public Health Perspective. Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Diabetes Translation, 2001.
[iv] Kentucky Department for Public Health, BRFSS data.
[v] Kentucky Department for Public Health, BRFSS, 2001.
[vi] CDC, BRFSS 2001.
[vii] CDC, BRFSS, 2001.
[viii] Kentucky Department for Public Health, Health Policy Development Branch, 2000 Inpatient Hospital Discharge File.
[ix] Impact of Diabetes in Kentucky, 1999
[x] Harris MI, Klein R, Cowie CC, Rowland M, Byrd-Holt DD. Is the risk of diabetic retinopathy greater in non-Hispanic blacks and Mexican Americans than in non-Hispanic whites with type 2 diabetes? A U.S. population study. Diabetes Care 1998;21(8):1230-5.
[xi] CDC Press Release: CDC to Convene Task Force on Diabetes and Women, October 22, 2001
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Office of Women’s Physical and Mental Health Fact Sheet
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