Unhealthy Days among Adults with Diabetes

• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), persons with diabetes are at increased risk for complications that result in lower extremity amputations, blindness, and other types of physical disability in addition to increased stress, depression, and emotional problems that may be associated with unhealthy days.
• The CDC defines 'unhealthy days' among adults with diabetes as the combination of days that an adult reports experiencing poor physical or poor mental health in the past month, totaling over 15 days.
• Adults with diabetes in Virginia are 2.4 times more likely to report 15 or more unhealthy days in one month than adults without diabetes.

Healthy People 2010 Objective:
(27-1a.) Reduce cigarette smoking by adults to 12 percent.

Source: VA BRFSS, 2005
Data Note: Percents are weighted towards annual population estimates.

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