Office of Minority Health

• American Indian/Alaska Native adults are almost three times more likely than non-Hispanic white adults to be diagnosed with diabetes.
• American Indians/Alaska Natives were 2.5 times more likely than non-Hispanic whites to die from diabetes, in 2017.
• In 2016, American Indians/Native Americans were 2.4 times more likely to be diagnosed with end stage renal disease than non-Hispanic whites.

Diagnosed Cases of Diabetes

Source: CDC 2019. Summary Health Statistics: National Health Interview Survey: 2018. Table A-4a. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/shs/tables.htm

Source: CDC 2019. National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2017. Table 1c.
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data/statistics-report/index.html
 

Death Rates

Source: CDC, 2018. National Vital Statistics Report. Vol. 68, No. 9. Table 10.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_09-508.pdf [PDF | 1.76MB]

Risk Factors

There are several risk factors related to diabetes. Some of these risk factors are:

Obesity and Overweight – See Obesity and American Indians/Native Americans
Hypertension – See Heart Disease and American Indians/Native Americans
High Cholesterol – See Heart Disease and American Indians/Native Americans
Cigarette Smoking – See Heart Disease and American Indians/Native Americans

Related Conditions

Source:  National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. Data Query: Table 6_4_3_6_1.2a and 2b. [Accessed 12/05/2019]
http://nhqrnet.ahrq.gov/inhqrdr/data/query

Treatment

Source: CDC, 2016. Healthy People 2020 Database. Table D-9.
http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/Data/default.aspx  

Source: CDC, 2016. Healthy People 2020 Database. Table D-10.
http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/Data/default.aspx