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"There are certain things based on strong evidence that we should be doing to take the best care of our patients. The challenge as a physician is making sure you’re meeting those with your patients while at the same time addressing all the things the patient thinks is important."

‒ Dr. James Gutierrez
Cleveland Clinic

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Eating foods with a lot of sugar does not cause diabetes. But becoming overweight and being overweight is tied to Type 2 diabetes.

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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.