Utah Diabetes Profile
Diagnosed diabetes is prevalent across all 50 states and Washington, DC. People with diabetes are at high risk of heart disease, stroke, and other serious complications, such as kidney failure, blindness, and amputation of a toe, foot, or leg. CDC’s Division of Diabetes Translation (DDT) focuses on preventing type 2 diabetes, reducing diabetes complications and disability, and reducing diabetes-related disparities, which are differences in health across geographic, racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups.
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Total Diabetes Cases (Prevalence)
New Diabetes Cases (Incidence)
- The Utah Department of Health integrated National DPP lifestyle change program referrals into clinical settings and helped support a text message campaign to increase awareness around the National DPP. From September 2020 to September 2021, nearly 30,000 people were reached through evidence-based engagement strategies.
- The Utah Department of Health established partnership with the Office of Rural Health and Primary Care to promote DSMES to providers, increase referrals to existing DSMES in rural areas, and assess the need for new DSMES sites in nine rural locations that do not currently have one.