In 2005, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) issued a report that examined blood sugar control across the United States. The findings showed that two out of three Americans with type 2 diabetes did not achieve the AACE-recommended blood sugar control goal of 6.5 percent or less in 2003 and 2004.
Nationally, an average of 67 percent of people with type 2 diabetes analyzed in the study were not in control of their blood sugar, with blood sugar levels exceeding the AACE-recommended A1C goal.
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Blue States: Other states using SDI data to show percentage of people with type 2 diabetes above A1C goal of 6.5% or less.
Gray States: Percentage of people studied with type 2 diabetes above A1C of 9% according to HEDIS data.
*Data for the Report were provided by Survellance Data Inc. (SDI), the leading provider of real-time localized illness tracking and modeling data to the healthcare industry.
**For those states for which were not available, HEDIS® Quality Comparisons data from 2003 were used as a supplement. HEDIS® Quality Comparisons data from 2003, show the percentage of people who were above A1C of 9%. The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) provides HEDIS data, which are often used by managed care organizations to measure performance and healthcare quality in key disease areas, including diabetes.
This map shows the percentage of people analyzed in the study in each state who were above the 6.5 percent or less target. The study included more than 157,000 people with type 2 diabetes.