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Diabetes Data for Virginia

Diabetes in Virginia: A Comprehensive Data Report  The Virginia Diabetes Prevention and Control Project (DPCP) developed a revised diabetes burden report for 2009. This report can be accessed directly from the DPCP home page at   Report    This report contains recent data for diabetes-related prevalence, management practices, morbidity, risk factors, and mortality. The report also highlights diabetes-related geographic, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities within Virginia. The report was developed as a direct result of stakeholder feedback from an original diabetes burden report published in 2002 and from subsequent statewide focus group data.

Virginia Diabetes Indicator Database (VDID) - is a comprehensive user-friendly web-based tool that contains data for over 35 diabetes related indicators.  This tool was designed to provide stakeholders, grant writers and policy makers with the information they need to make informed decisions about the use of resources, identification of priority populations and to illuminate the gaps in diabetes data that currently exist.  www.vahealth.org/cdpc/diabetes/VDID/index.htm

Diabetes in Virginia is Common, Serious, Costly, Controllable, and Preventable.

Common - The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among adults (> 18 years of age) in Virginia has increased 90 percent from 3.9 percent in 1995 to 7.4 percent in 2006. Virginia’s rising prevalence has remained close to the national prevalence during the past 11 years and for 2006 they are virtually identical, 7.4 percent and 7.5 percent, respectively.

Serious - Diabetes was the 6th leading cause of death in Virginia in 2005. Diabetes can cause heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, pregnancy complications, amputations of the leg, foot and toe, as well as, deaths related to flu and pneumonia.

Costly - Persons with diabetes are at greater risk of hospitalization due to complications such as diabetic ketoacidosis, end-stage renal disease, lower extremity amputation, and cardiovascular disease. In 2005, the number and cost of these diabetes-related hospitalizations in Virginia are shown in the table below.

Controllable – Many of the complications from diabetes can be prevented or delayed by taking steps to control or manage diabetes. Since 1999, the statewide percent of people with diabetes who check their blood glucose daily, who had their A1c, feet and eyes checked, and who received pneumonia vaccines have all increased.

Preventable – Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they almost always have prediabetes. The Diabetes Prevention Program, a large national study of over 3,000 people showed that changes in lifestyle, including healthier eating (lowering fat and calories), increased activity (about a half hour per day of moderate walking), and modest weight loss (5 to 7 percent of body weight), can substantially reduce the progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes by 58 percent.

National Diabetes Data

 

Diabetes Data & Trends – CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation Data and Trends section, which includes the National Diabetes Fact Sheet and the National Diabetes Surveillance System, provides resources documenting the public health burden of diabetes and its complications in the United States.

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/DDTSTRS/default.aspx

 

County Level Estimates of Diagnosed Diabetes – CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation provides estimates for adults living with diagnosed diabetes.  This is the first data set to provide county-level estimates for all counties in the nation.

http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/DDT_STRS2/NationalDiabetesPrevalenceEstimates.aspx )

 

Diabetes:  The Numbers - The following slides contain the latest U.S. diabetes prevalence and incidence rates broken down by age, sex, and race/ethnicity. They are designed as a resource for health care professionals, diabetes educators, and students. Slides can be downloaded as an entire presentation or used individually. Click here to download.

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