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Diabetes and its complications are major causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States and contribute substantially to health-care costs.
| PRESS CONTACT: Catherine Cowie National Institutes of Health (301) 594鈥?804 (Assigned New Mexico Department of Health) |
Diagnosed diabetes has been shown to increase over time but recent data on undiagnosed diabetes have been unavailable. Data are now available during 1999-2000 from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey which documents both diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes, and impaired fasting glucose, a condition which can predispose to diabetes. Diabetes and impaired fasting glucose continue to affect a major proportion of the U.S. population. An estimated 29 million persons (14.4% of the U.S. population) aged >20 years had either diagnosed diabetes, undiagnosed diabetes, or impaired fasting glucose; 29% of diabetes was undiagnosed. Persons can reduce their risk for diabetes through weight management and physical activity.
| PRESS CONTACT: Shelly Stonecipher CDC, Epidemiology Program Office (517) 335鈥?270 (Michigan) |
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Washington adults who are concerned about food security are more likely to be obese compared to those whose aren鈥檛 concerned about food security.
| PRESS CONTACT: Jennifer Sabel, PhD Washington State Department of Health (360) 236鈥?756 (Washington State, Pacific Time) |
Food security is defined as having access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle. The analysis was performed using data from the Washington Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System from 1995-1999. The relationship between food insecurity and obesity persisted even after adjusting for other important factors such as income, education, and physical activity.
This report indicates that at least 8.6 million persons in the United States are living with at least one serious smoking-attributed illness.
| PRESS CONTACT: Terry Pechacek, PhD CDC, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention & Health Promotion (770) 488鈥?493 |
Chronic bronchitis and emphysema account for 59% of all smoking-attributable diseases. Furthermore, cost associated with smoking-attributed illness is a major contributor to the $75 billion per year in direct medical costs from smoking. Each year in the United States, approximately 440,000 persons die of a smoking-attributable illness, resulting in 5.6 million years of potential life lost and $82 billion in lost productivity. To document smoking-attributable morbidity, we analyzed data from three data sources: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III (NHANES), and the U.S. Census. These findings underscore the need to expand surveillance of the disease burden caused by smoking and to establish comprehensive tobacco-use prevention and cessation efforts in order to reduce this disease burden.
Healthcare providers and state and local health departments should ask persons newly diagnosed with hepatitis A about concert attendance and report cases to CDC.
| PRESS CONTACT: Priti Patel, MD, MPH CDC, National Center for Infectious Diseases (404) 371鈥?419 |
In July 2003, CDC learned of hepatitis A cases among young adults traveling the country with several popular 鈥渏am bands鈥? To date, a total of 25 cases from nine states have been identified. Most have attended numerous outdoor concerts or music festivals this summer. Person-to-person transmission and poor sanitation may have contributed to the spread of the disease at these gatherings. In response, CDC, together with state and local health departments in California and Oregon, educated concert-goers and vaccinated more than 300 concert attendees this summer. While the summer concert season has ended, fall tours are scheduled to begin this month and there is concern that person-to-person spread may continue.
| PRESS CONTACT: Division of Media Relations CDC, Office of Communication (404) 639-3286 |
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