5-16.
Increase the proportion of adults with diabetes who take aspirin at least 15 times per month.
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5-16. | |
Increase the proportion of adults with diabetes who take aspirin at least 15 times per month. |
Target: 30 percent.
Baseline: 20 percent of adults aged 40 years and older with diabetes took aspirin at least 15 times per month in 1988–94 (age adjusted to the year 2000 standard population).
Target setting method: Better than the best.
Data source: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), CDC, NCHS.
|
Adults
Aged 40 Years and Older With |
Took Aspirin at Least 15 Times per Month |
|
Percent |
|
|
TOTAL |
20 |
|
Race and ethnicity |
|
|
American Indian or Alaska Native |
DSU |
|
Asian or Pacific Islander |
DSU |
|
Asian |
DNC |
|
Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander |
DNC |
|
Black or African American |
9 |
|
White |
23 |
|
|
|
Hispanic or Latino |
DSU |
|
Mexican American |
8 |
|
Not Hispanic or Latino |
DNA |
|
Black or African American |
8 |
|
White |
25 |
|
Gender |
|
|
Female |
15 |
|
Male |
27 |
|
Education level |
|
|
Less than high school |
16 |
|
High school graduate |
24 |
|
At least some college |
22 |
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.