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Diabetes in America, 3rd Edition
Chapter 16: Diabetes in Older Adults

Figure 16.1 -- 
Line graph showing that from 1997 to 2010 the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes among adults age 65 and older increased from 13.2% to 21.4%, a 62.1% relative increase.

Figure 16.2 -- 
Line graph showing that from 1997 to 2010, the number of adults age 65 and older with diagnosed diabetes nearly doubled from an estimated 4.20 million to 8.28 million.

Figure 16.3 -- 
Bar chart showing that older adults with diabetes vary greatly with regard to duration of disease.  Over half of adults 70 and older had diabetes for 10 or more years.

Figure 16.4
 -- Bar chart showing that 83.3% of adults age 65 or older with diabetes were overweight or obese compared to 68.8% of their counterparts without diabetes.

Figure 16.5 -- 
Bar chart showing that the proportion of overweight or obesity among adults age 60 or older decreased with increasing age.

Figure 16.6 -- 
Bar chart showing that the prevalences of all forms of cardiovascular complications are nearly double for older adults with diabetes compared to those without diabetes.

Figure 16.7 -- 
Bar chart showing that coronary heart disease was present in 24.3% of older adults with diabetes, followed by myocardial infarction at 16.3%, stroke at 13.0%, and angina at 10.4%.

Figure 16.8 -- 
Bar chart showing that older adults with diabetes had a fourfold higher prevalence of retinopathy and a twofold higher prevalence of microalbuminuria versus those without diabetes.


Figure 16.9
 -- Bar chart showing that increasing age was associated with higher rates of trouble seeing and blindness and having weak or failing kidneys among the geriatric diabetic population.

Figure 16.10 -- 
Bar chart showing that the prevalence of chronic pain was higher among adults ages 60 to 69 compared to those ages 70 to 79 and those age 80 and older.

Figure 16.11 -- 
Pie chart showing that 75% of health care expenditures attributed to diabetes among older adults was due to hospital inpatient stays, prescription medications, and nursing facilities.