Diabetes Report Card 2012: National and State Profile of
Diabetes and Its Complications Diabetes data presented in this
report card are from the U.S. Census Bureau and various CDC
surveys and data collection systems, including the National
Health Interview Survey, the National Hospital Discharge Survey,
the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), and the
National Vital Statistics System. CDC staff members used data
from these original sources to calculate the estimates presented
in this report. Many of these data appear in greater detail on
CDC’s National Diabetes Surveillance System Web site at
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/DDTSTRS/default.aspx. To make
meaningful comparisons between states and over time, we used the
2000 U.S. standard population to age adjust our estimated rates.
Age adjustment is a statistical process applied to rates of
diseases, injuries, and health outcomes. It allows comparisons
between communities with different age structures because it
proportions rates to a standard age stru