{"id":4042,"date":"2017-11-27T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T17:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2017-11-27T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T17:02:52","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-visits-to-office-based-physicians-by-adults-aged-18-years-or-older-for-diabetes-mellitus-by-sex-and-age-national-ambulatory-medical-care-survey-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/11\/27\/4042\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Visits to Office-Based Physicians by Adults Aged 18 Years or Older for Diabetes Mellitus, by Sex and Age \u2014 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6646a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/m6646qsf.gif\" width=\"422\" height=\"317\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, diabetes was a reason for 4.2% of visits by adults to office-based physicians.<\/p>\n<p>Men aged 18\u201344 years had a higher percentage of visits for diabetes compared with women aged 18\u201344 years (2.2% versus 0.4%, respectively).<\/p>\n<p>Both women and men aged 18\u201344 years had a lower percentage of visits for diabetes compared with adults aged 45\u201364 and over 65 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, 2015 data<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6646a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6646a7.htm\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2015, diabetes was a reason for 4.2% of visits by adults to office-based physicians. Men aged 18\u201344 years had a higher percentage of visits for diabetes compared with women aged 18\u201344 years (2.2% versus 0.4%, respectively). Both women and men aged 18\u201344 years had a lower percentage of visits for diabetes compared with adults<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29100,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}