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‒ Elaine
Cleveland, OH

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The exact causes of both types of diabetes are unknown. Type 1 diabetes tends to show up after exposure to a trigger, such as a virus, which can attack cells in the pancreas that make insulin. There is no one cause for Type 2 diabetes, but it seems to run in families, and most people who get it are overweight.

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Community Health Checkup > Diabetes 2007-2008 Report > Part Two : Better Health's Diabetes Checkup - Regional Results > Achievement by Race/Ethnicity

Region-Wide Achievement by Race/Ethnicity Category

Figure 4 highlights the region’s overall achievement on our composite Outcomes and Care Processes standards, stratified by race/ethnicity category. This report describes patients in three categories related to race and ethnicity. While there were a small number of patients reported in other categories, they were too varied and too few in number (508) to provide meaningful comparisons. One system (Kaiser Permanente) does not report race/ethnicity information, so the Figure displays achievement across the 32 practices affiliated with the other six reporting health systems.

Overall, 18,237 diabetes patients with race/ethnicity known to be White, African-American or Hispanic are shown. The individual bars describe the 10,040 White (55%), 7,187 African-American (39%), and 1,010 Hispanic (6%) patients in these systems.

Figure 4. Region-Wide Achievement on Better Health Greater Cleveland's Composite Standards, by Race/Ethnicity Category, July 2007 - June 2008

Overall achievement on our composite Outcomes standard varied a modest amount across patients by race, with African-American patients faring less well (28%) than Hispanic (37%) or white (41%) patients. There was less variation across race categories in achievement on our composite Process standard.