Health Status - Alabama - Kaiser State Health Facts

Notes:	U.S. totals do not include territories. All data are self-reported. Respondents were asked the question, "Have you ever been told by a doctor that you have diabetes?".
Sources:	Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2009; analysis by the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, available at http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/BRFSS/list.asp?cat=DB&yr=2009&qkey=1363&state=All.

Notes:	State data based upon the BRFSS, an ongoing, state-based, random-digit-dialed telephone survey of noninstitutionalized civilian adults aged 18 years and older. State figures are age-adjusted to the U.S. population in 2000. National data based upon the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an ongoing health survey of the civilian, noninstitutionalized, household population of the United States. National figures were age-adjusted using estimates of the 2000 U.S. population as the standard. Figures may not sum exactly due to rounding. Women who indicated that they had diabetes only during pregnancy were not included in these data.
Sources:	"State-specific Estimates of Diagnosed Diabetes Among Adults" and "Prevalence of Diabetes," Diabetes Surveillance System, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services, 2005. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/prev/state/tPrevalenceTotal.htm. U.S. totals available at http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/prev/national/tprevage.htm.
Definitions:	NA= Data is not available.
Footnotes:	U.S. prevalence per 100 adults for ages 0-44 is approximately 1.4.

Notes:	Age-adjusted rates per 100,000 U.S. standard population. Populations used for computing death rates are postcensal estimates based on the 2000 census. Since death rates are affected by the population composition of a given area, age-adjusted death rates should be used for comparisons between areas because they control for differences in population composition. Data are for 2007.
Sources:	The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics, Division of Vital Statistics, National Vital Statistics Report Volume 58, Number 19, May 2010, Table 29. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_19.pdf.
Footnotes:	The death rate for the U.S. does not include data from Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and Guam.

Notes:	These figures are age-adjusted to the total U.S. population in 2000.
Sources:	United States Department of Health and Human Services (US DHHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Compressed Mortality File (CMF) compiled from 1999-2006, Series 20, No. 2L 2009 on CDC WONDER On-line Database; accessed August 13, 2009. Available at http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd10.html.
Definitions:	Underlying cause of death is diabetes mellitus (ICD-10 codes:E10-E14).