rates, at approximately 7%, makes diabetes one of the most common chronic identify if they had ever been diagnosed with diabetes. …

DIABETES
The complications of diabetes ie, cardiovascular disease, visual impairment including blindness, endstage renal kidney disease are major causes of disability in the United States Current national prevalence rates, at approximately 7, makes diabetes one of the most common chronic diseases affecting the adult population The disease disproportionately affects older adults, and the African American, and Hispanic population The data in this section for the US and State of Connecticut are from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System 2002, and data on Hartford residents are from the Hartford Health Survey, 2003 Both are population-based surveys generating self-reported data Survey respondents were asked to identify if they had ever been diagnosed with diabetes

DIABETES PREVALENCE IN THE US, CONNECTICUT, HARTFORD

14 12 10

Percent
8 6 4

US
2 0 Series1

Hartford

1 7

2 6

3 13

RACE / ETHNICITY

160 140 120
Percent

100 80 60 40 20 00 White 59 60 116 Black 102 80 160 Hispanic 67 42 133 Other 73 34 100

US Connecticut Hartford

DIABETES AMONG HARTFORDS ADULT POPULATION
The data in this section are taken from the Hartford Health Survey, 2003 Survey respondents were
asked whether they had ever been diagnosed with diabetes by a physician In 2003, 13 of Hartfords respondents indicated that they had a diagnosis of diabetes The prevalence of diabetes in Hartford has risen since the Hartford Health Survey, 1997 when the rate was 84

DEMOGRAPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF HARTFORD RESIDENTS WITH A DIAGNOSIS OF DIABETES

AGE GROUP
Diabetes diagnosis by age group

400 350

Percent

300 250 200 150 100 50 00 18-34 35-44 45-64 65-74 75 Diabetes

GENDER

16 14 12 10 Percent 8 6 4 2 0 Diabetes Male 111 Female 143

ETHNICITY
16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0 White Diabetes 12 African American 16

Carribean 15

Hispanic 13

Other 10

INCOME