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"In the Cleveland area, there are a lot of places to walk around, and a lot of places are free. We go to the Art Museum, we just went to the zoo, so we’ve done some exercise that’s not really exercise, but it was good for our health and good for our weight management and also good for our diabetes."

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Cleveland, OH

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Electric blankets sometimes carry warnings for people with diabetes. Diabetes can cause nerve damage (diabetic neuropathy). That can lead to a loss of feeling and an inability to tell if the blanket is too hot. To avoid burns, use the blanket to warm the bed but switch it off before you climb in.

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Checkup 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.