Age-Adjusted Diabetes Mortality Rates Vary in Local Communities in a Metropolitan Area: Racial and Spatial Disparities and Correlates | Zendy

Bijou R. Hunt | Zendy; Steven Whitman | Zendy; Candice A. Henry | Zendy

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Age-Adjusted Diabetes Mortality Rates Vary in Local Communities in a Metropolitan Area: Racial and Spatial Disparities and Correlates

Author(s) -

Bijou R. Hunt,

Steven Whitman,

Candice A. Henry

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc13-0988

Subject(s) - medicine , ethnic group , demography , diabetes mellitus , psychological intervention , gerontology , metropolitan area , population , mortality rate , community health , race (biology) , public health , environmental health , botany , nursing , pathology , psychiatry , sociology , anthropology , biology , endocrinology

Diabetes has held steady as the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. since 2006. While aggregated data provide insights into how the country as a whole, or even as states, is faring with respect to diabetes mortality, disaggregation provides data that may facilitate targeted interventions and community engagement.

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