{"id":5763,"date":"2021-05-07T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=5763"},"modified":"2021-05-07T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:00:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-18-or-older-with-diagnosed-diabetes-by-urbanization-level-and-age-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/05\/07\/5763\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 18 or Older with Diagnosed Diabetes by Urbanization Level and Age Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5765 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/mm7018a4-f.gif\" alt=\"mm7018a4-f\" width=\"402\" height=\"233\" \/>In 2019, the percentage of adults aged 18 years or older with diagnosed diabetes was higher among those living in nonmetropolitan areas (12.4%) than among those living in metropolitan areas (8.9%).<\/p>\n<p>Percentages of adults with diagnosed diabetes were higher in nonmetropolitan than metropolitan areas for those aged 18\u201344 years (3.5% versus 2.3%) and 45\u201364 years (15.2% versus 11.6%).<\/p>\n<p>Among adults aged 65 years or older, the difference by urbanization level (21.9% in nonmetropolitan areas versus 19.8% in metropolitan areas) did not reach statistical significance.<\/p>\n<p>The prevalence of diagnosed diabetes increased with age in both nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2019.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7018a4.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7018a4.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, the percentage of adults aged 18 years or older with diagnosed diabetes was higher among those living in nonmetropolitan areas (12.4%) than among those living in metropolitan areas (8.9%). Percentages of adults with diagnosed diabetes were higher in nonmetropolitan than metropolitan areas for those aged 18\u201344 years (3.5% versus 2.3%) and 45\u201364 years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29100,53746,53752,57495,63801],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763"}],"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=5763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}