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DIABETES
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diabetes_imageThe American Diabetes Association asserts that diabetes is one of the most serious health problems the African American community faces today.

  • 3.2 million or 13.3% of all African Americans aged 20 years or older have diabetes.
  • One in four African American women over 55 years of age has diabetes.
  • African Americans are 1.8 times more likely to have diabetes as non Hispanic whites. Twenty-five percent of African Americans between the ages of 65 and 74 have diabetes.
obesity_imgWashington, DC has the 40th highest rate of adult obesity at 22.2 percent and the 1st highest rate of overweight youths (ages 10-17) at 22.8 percent in the nation, according to a new report by Trust for America's Health (TFAH).  The fourth annual F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2007 report found that adult obesity rates rose in 31 states in the U.S. over the past year, and adult obesity rates now exceed 25 percent in 19 states. The rate of adult obesity remained consistent in Washington, DC since last year. The report also finds that rates of overweight children (ages 10 to 17) ranged from a high of 22.8 percent in Washington, D.C. to a low of 8.5 percent in Utah.
HIV/AIDS
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
Information in the District of Columbia HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Annual Report 2007 confirmed the severity of the HIV/AIDS crisis.   African-American residents account for 57 percent of the District’s population, yet they account for 81percent of new reports of HIV cases.  African-American women constitute 58 percent of the District’s female population, but account for 90 percent of all new female HIV cases. The District’s rate for newly reported AIDS cases is higher than rates in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Detroit, and Chicago.
substance_imageAccording to the most recently reported data (2008) from the Department of Health (DOH) Addiction Prevention and Recovery Administration (APRA),“ it is estimated that over 60,000 individuals in the District of Columbia have a substance abuse problem. This figure represents nearly 12 percent of the general population. In addition, forty percent of the 1.2 million annual emergency room visits in the District of Columbia are related to alcohol and drug abuse”.

 

 
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