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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
With Diabetes, 1998

Annual Glycosylated Hemoglobin
Assessment

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.