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Diabetes Shock In Big Apple
A staggering 207,000 New Yorkers afflicted with diabetes don’t even know it, according to a survey released yesterday.
That’s around 30 percent of the nearly 700,000 city residents with disease.
About 12.5 percent of city residents have diabetes, a figure that Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden calls alarming. The Health Department survey also found that half of New York’s Asian residents either have or are at risk of getting diabetes, the highest rate in the city.
One in six Asians – or 17 percent – has diabetes, and an additional 32 percent have elevated blood-sugar levels, meaning that they are at risk of getting diabetes.
Fourteen percent of blacks, 12 percent of Hispanics and 11 percent of white have the disease.
About 100,000 people with diabetes are at risk for heart attacks, blindness, amputations and other serious complications because of inadequate monitoring and treatment, the survey said.
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