2008 Georgia Data Summary*
Georgia Department of Human Resources
http://health.state.ga.us/pdfs/epi/cdiee/2008%20Diabetes%20Data%20Summary.pdf

2008 Georgia Program and Data Summary**
Georgia Department of Human Resources
http://health.state.ga.us/pdfs/epi/cdiee/2008%20Diabetes%20Program%20and%20Data%20Summary.pdf

The Burden of Diabetes in Georgia***
Georgia Department of Human Resources, Division of Public Health Chronic Disease, Injury, and Environmental Epidemiology Section
http://www.health.state.ga.us/pdfs/epi/cdiee/diabetes.fs.03.pdf

Overall Prevalence:

• 700,000 adults aged 18 years and older (10.1% of the Georgia adult population) had been diagnosed with diabetes (2007). *
• The cases for diabetes is increasing in Georgia due to the rise in obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity. **

• 133,500 Blacks (8.7%) were diagnosed as diabetic in 2002, compared to 6.3% white; 6.9% hispanic during the same time period.***

• In 2006, diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in Georgia.**

• The overall age-adjusted diabetes death rate per 100,000 in 2006 was 1.3 times higher in men than women.*
• From 1999 through 2006, the Northeast regions of Georgia tend to have the higher age – adjusted diabetes mortality than thestatewide average.*
• In 2006, pre-mature deaths in Georgia due to diabetes were hightest among blacks (53.7%), followed by white males (41.1%), black females (33.0%), and white females (26.6%).**

Hospitalization Rate:

• In 2006, there were 15,593 hospitalizations for which diabetes was the principal diagnosis, resulting in over $288 million hospital charges and about 78,346 days or 215 years of hospital stay. *
• In 2006, 19,459 emergency room visits were attributed to diabetes. *

• The health care cost for a diabetic in Georgia is approximately $11, 744 per year compared to a non-diabetic whose cost is $5, 095 per year.**
• Diabetes costs Georgia over $5.1 billion in medical care per year.*