5-12. | Increase the proportion of adults with diabetes who have a glycosylated hemoglobin measurement at least once a year. |
Target: 50 percent.
Baseline: 24 percent of adults aged 18 years and older with diabetes had a glycosylated hemoglobin measurement at least once a year (mean of data from 39 States in 1998; age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), CDC, NCCDPHP.
|
Adults Aged 18 Years and
Older |
Annual Glycosylated
Hemoglobin |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
24 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
29 |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
48 |
|
Asian |
DNC |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DNC |
|
Black or African American |
21 |
|
White |
25 |
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
22 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
25 |
|
Black or African American |
21 |
|
White |
24 |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
24 |
|
Male |
25 |
|
Education level (aged 25 years and older) |
|
|
Less than high school |
13 |
|
High school graduate |
19 |
|
At least some college |
31 |
|
Select populations |
|
|
Age groups (not age adjusted) |
|
|
18 to 44 years |
29 |
|
45 to 64 years |
23 |
|
65 to 74 years |
13 |
|
75 years and older |
11 |
DNA = Data have not been analyzed. DNC = Data are not
collected. DSU = Data are statistically unreliable.
Note: Age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population.