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Test your knowledge about Diabetes in Connecticut.
April 2002

1. How many people in Connecticut age 18 years and older reported having been diagnosed with diabetes?

a) one in twenty
b) one in ten
c) one in thirty
d) one in eight

2. Connecticut adults with diabetes are twice as likely as non-diabetic adults to :

a) Be overweight
b) Have hypertension
c) Have high cholesterol
d) All of the above

3. The direct cost (medical care) and indirect costs (lost productivity and premature death) of diabetes in Connecticut in 1997 totaled:

a) $1 million 
b) $3.5 million
c) $500 million
d) $1.2 billion 

4. The mortality rate for Connecticut's black diabetics compared to that for white diabetics is:

a) 5 times higher
b) 10 times higher
c) 2 times higher
d) the same

5. Someone in Connecticut is hospitalized for complications related to diabetes every:

a) Day
b) 2 hours
c) Minute
d) Week

Data from the Connecticut Diabetes Surveillance Report, Connecticut Department of Public Health, 2000.

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