rural health

Diabetes in Rural North Carolina

Summary Diabetes is growing at an epidemic rate in the United States. In North Carolina alone, diabetes and prediabetes cost an estimated $10.9 billion each year (American Diabetes Association, 2015). This is the second post in the series exploring Diabetes in rural North Carolina. This post will explore the data used for this project, from collection, cleaning, and analysis ready data. Please read the full post here

Diabetes in Rural North Carolina

Summary Diabetes is growing at an epidemic rate in the United States. In North Carolina alone, diabetes and prediabetes cost an estimated $10.9 billion each year (American Diabetes Association, 2015). This post introduces the exploration of the Diabetes epidemic in North Carolina. Through a series of posts this project will examine various public data available on diabetes and explore possible solutions to address the rise of diabetes in North Carolina.