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QuickStats: Number of Persons with Diagnosed Diabetes* and Number
of Ambulatory Care Visits Related to Diabetes --- United States, 1997--2004
* Estimated from self-reported responses during in-person interviews to the question, "Have you ever been told by a doctor
or health professional that you have diabetes or sugar diabetes?"
Ambulatory care visits include those made to physician offices and hospital outpatient departments during the preceding
12 months. Diabetes-related visits are those made by persons with a first-, second-, or third-listed diagnosis of
diabetes (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification
codes 250.00--250.99).
§ The weighting methodology for physician office visits for 2003 and 2004 differed from the method used during
1997--2002, which increased the relative number of visit estimates in 2003 and 2004 compared with preceding years (available at
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad365.pdf).
Whereas the estimated number of persons in the United States increased by approximately 8% during
1997--2004, the number of persons with diabetes in the United States increased by approximately 50%, from
10.1 million in 1997 to 15.2 million in 2004. The estimated number of diabetes-related visits to physician offices
and hospital outpatient departments also increased by approximately 41% during this period.
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