Houston, TX – Texas Diabetes Council’s 2008-2009 Plan to Prevent and Control Diabetes in Texas* & Fact Sheet (2005) Texas Diabetes Fact Sheet 2005**

2008-2009 Plan to Prevent and Control Diabetes in Texas*
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/diabetes/PDF/splan08.pdf
Fact Sheet (2005) Texas Diabetes Fact Sheet 2005** http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/diabetes/PDF/diabetesfacts.pdf

• An estimated 1.3 million persons aged 18 years and older in Texas (7.9 percent of this age group) have been diagnosed with diabetes.*
• Another estimated 418,134 persons aged 18 years and older in Texas are believed to have undiagnosed diabetes*
• The total for both diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes is 1,739,437.*
• Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in Texas*
• It is the fourth leading cause among African Americans and Hispanics.*
• Hospital discharge data tell us that counties along the Texas-Mexico border have higher diabetes-related amputation rates than non-border counties – 8.3 per 100,000*
• Texas has seen a steady increase in diabetes from 2000 through 2005, with prevalence rising from 6.2 percent (927,834) to 7.9 percent (1,325,244) — a 27 percent increase.*
• Since 1998, prevalence rates for non-Hispanic blacks have been increasing at a higher rate than rates for Hispanics and non- Hispanic whites.*
• An estimated one in every 400 to 600 Texas children and adolescents has type 1 diabetes. It is the second most prevalent chronic disease of childhood after asthma. *
• Prevalence of Diagnosed8 Diabetes by Sex in Persons 18 and Older*

Male................................................................................ 612,716 (7.4%)
Female............................................................................ 709,414 (8.4%)
• In 2004, 5,426 deaths were directly attributed to diabetes. *
• Diabetes was also the sixth leading cause of death nationally in 2002 through 2004. Diabetes is believed to be under-reported on death certificates in Texas and the nation, both as a condition and as a cause of death.*