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Senior Citizen Health & Medicine
Poor and Senior Citizen Diabetics are Most Likely to
be Hospitalized
Older diabetics five times more likely to be
hospitalized
Sept. 10, 2007 If you live in one of the nations
poorest communities, you are 80 percent more likely to be hospitalized
for diabetes or its complications than those living in the more affluent
areas. And, if you are a diabetic senior citizen, you are five times
more likely to be hospitalized than younger Americans.
These are some of the new findings from the latest
News and Numbers of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Poor
communities are defined as having an average income of under $37,000 and
affluent communities have an average income of $61,000 or more.
AHRQ also found that in 2005:
● Some 10,000 per 100,000 patients 65 and older
with diabetes were hospitalized. This rate is about five times the
national average (2,200 hospitalizations per 100,000).
● There were nearly 2,800 diabetes-related
hospitalizations per 100,000 people in the poorest communities compared
with 1,561 hospitalizations per 100,000 people from more affluent
communities.
● Admissions for patients with diabetes increased
by 85 percent (3.5 million to 6.5 million) between 1993 to 2005. These
admissions accounted for 17 percent of all hospital cases in 2005.
● At 1,585 per 100,000 people, the diabetes
hospitalization rate in the West was nearly 40 percent lower than the
rate for all other regions of the country, which averaged 2,200
hospitalizations per 100,000.
This AHRQ News and Numbers summary is based on data
in
HCUP Facts and Figures, which provides highlights of the latest data
from AHRQs Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project on a range of
hospital inpatient care subjects, including leading reasons for
hospitalization, such as childbirth, diabetes, and heart conditions;
weight-loss, cardiac and other surgical procedures; and hospital costs.
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