NCHS Data Brief, No. 161 – Age Differences in Visits to Office-based Physicians by Patients With Diabetes: United States, 2010

This report released July 31, 2014, was written by Jill J. Ashman, Ph.D.; Anjali Talwalkar, M.D., M.P.H.; and Shelby A. Taylor, M.P.H., of the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The researchers analyzed data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. They sought to determine if people diagnosed with diabetes made more visits to office-based physicians between 2005 and 2010. Diabetes affects nearly 29 million people in the United States. The analysis breaks out visits and rates by age group, and by presence . . .