{"id":4046,"date":"2017-12-04T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T15:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2017-12-04T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T15:09:32","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-20-64-years-with-a-fasting-test-in-the-past-12-months-for-high-blood-sugar-or-diabetes-by-race-ethnicity-national-health-interview-survey-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/12\/04\/4046\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 20\u201364 Years With a Fasting Test in the Past 12 Months for High Blood Sugar or Diabetes, by Race\/Ethnicity \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2011 and 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6647a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/m6647qsf.gif\" width=\"422\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The percentage of U.S. adults aged 20\u201364 years who had a fasting test for high blood sugar or diabetes in the past 12 months increased from 39.7% in 2011 to 45.7% in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>From 2011 to 2016, there was an increase in the percentage for all racial\/ethnic groups examined: Hispanic (38.3% to 43.0%), non-Hispanic white (39.6% to 46.5%), non-Hispanic black (41.2% to 44.9%), and non-Hispanic Asian (41.5% to 49.6%) adults.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, there was no statistically significant difference among the four groups examined, but in 2016, Hispanic adults were less likely than non-Hispanic white and non-Hispanic Asian adults to have had a fasting test, and non-Hispanic Asian adults were more likely than non-Hispanic black adults to have had one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Health Interview Survey<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6647a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6647a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of U.S. adults aged 20\u201364 years who had a fasting test for high blood sugar or diabetes in the past 12 months increased from 39.7% in 2011 to 45.7% in 2016. From 2011 to 2016, there was an increase in the percentage for all racial\/ethnic groups examined: Hispanic (38.3% to 43.0%), non-Hispanic white<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046"}],"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=4046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}