NYC Diabetes Deaths Hit All-Time Record - 5,695 In 2011 In 5 Boroughs, Roughly One Every 90 Minutes
City health officials Monday declared a “diabetes epidemic,” saying deaths linked to the disease have reached an all-time high in the five boroughs.
A record 5,695 people died from diabetes and related causes in 2011, the Health Department said. That amounts to one death every 90 minutes, 16 deaths every day.
The surge in diabetes deaths comes even as the overall death rate is falling and life expectancy improving — so the portion of all city deaths linked to diabetes has nearly doubled since 1990, to 10.8%.
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The city previously reported that 650,000 New Yorkers have diabetes, a jump of 200,000 since 2002. Diabetes deaths are particularly high among black New Yorkers, who have a rate of 116 deaths for every 100,000 people, compared with 81 for Hispanics, 45 for whites, and 41 for Asians.
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