African-Americans – nearly one-fifth of U.S. Diabetes Population
One of every five US Citizen suffering from any type of Diabetis is an African-American. Representing 17 percent of all diabetes patients in the United States, nearly 3 million African-Americans are estimated to be diabetic. This figure is growing as the proportion of African-American patients diagnosed with diabetes. Based on new research from GfK Market Measures’ Roper Global Diabetes Group, the study also revealed that African-American patients are being diagnosed at higher rate than other patients. According to GfK , 14 percent of African-American diabetes patients were diagnosed with diabetes within the past 12 months compared to 8 percent of other patients. This figure is also a part of the conducted study of the same group.
March 20 2008 03:58 am | General