THE BE T
Number Check | #√
What You
Don’t Know
Can Hurt You
The number of persons in the US with
diabetes who do not know they have
the disease (out of a total of about
29 million persons with diabetes).
Another 86 million have prediabetes,
putting them at increased risk for
diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.
Source: MMWR. November 2014 63:1045.
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/
mm6211a4.htm
A Startling Finding
Regarding Imbibing
90%
A new study suggested
that 9 out of 10 adults who
drink too much alcohol are
not alcoholics or alcohol
dependent. This finding
was published in new study
by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention
in collaboration with the
Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration
(SAMHSA).
Source: Centers for Disease Control
www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/
p1120-excessive-drinking.html
Do You Even Know
if Your BP is High?
13 Million
The approximate number of people within the 71 million individuals
with hypertension who are neither aware of their hypertension, nor are
taking antihypertensive medications. The figure is based on an analysis
of data from the 2011-2-13 National Health and Nutrition Examination
Survey (NHANES).
Source: Wall H, Hannan J, Wright J. JAMA. 2014;312:1973-4.
Reality Bites
400,000
The approximate number of dental plans that were erroneously included in recently
released enrollment figures for the Affordable Care Act. The figures represented
enrollments obtained through the ACA-created insurance exchanges between
October 2013 and mid-October 2014. About 6.7 million people have paid-up health
insurance coverage purchased through the exchanges.
Source: Radnofsky L. Wall Street Journal. November 20, 2014.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/u-s-again-overstates-health-care-enrollees-1416513555
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CardioSource WorldNews
December 2014