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2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Table 2_3_3.1
Admissions for diabetes with long-term complicationsa (excluding obstetric admissions and transfers from other institutions) per 100,000 population, age 18 and over, United States, 2000 and 2006
    2006 2000
Population group Rateb SE Rateb SE
Total   126.9 3.6 117.8 2.8
Age 18–44 39.7 1.4 34.4 1.2
45–64 164.1 5.2 153.5 4.5
65 and over 346.5 9.9 325.8 7.7
  65–69 277.1 8.8 274.0 7.6
  70–74 335.5 11.0 319.8 8.5
  75–79 389.5 12.1 361.4 9.9
  80–84 420.6 13.6 393.0 11.4
  85 and over 375.7 13.4 336.5 11.2
Gender Male 145.1 4.0 133.7 3.2
Female 112.1 3.5 104.7 2.8
Median income of patient's ZIP code First quartile (lowest income) 193.4 10.2 193.9 9.3
Second quartile 133.2 5.6 129.5 5.1
Third quartile 102.6 4.2 99.0 4.2
Fourth quartile (highest income) 86.4 5.7 72.6 4.5
Location of patient residence Large central metropolitan 162.5 13.6 140.7 10.6
Large fringe metropolitan 109.3 8.4 112.5 8.2
Medium metropolitan 118.9 12.0 95.4 10.7
Small metropolitan 98.4 12.1 103.9 11.4
Micropolitan (nonmetro) 125.5 7.6 114.9 7.5
Noncore (nonmetro) 118.1 6.6 128.6 7.0
Region of inpatient treatment Northeast 156.7 12.3 132.7 8.4
Midwest 111.6 4.8 107.6 5.2
South 136.4 6.1 130.1 4.5
West 100.3 5.3 93.3 5.2

a Renal, eye, neurologic, circulatory, or other unspecified complications.

b Rates are adjusted by age and gender using the total U.S. population for 2000 as the standard population; when reporting is by age, the adjustment is by gender only; when reporting is by gender, the adjustment is by age only.

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample and AHRQ Quality Indicators, version 3.1.

 

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