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According to the Texas Department of Health the total population for Texas in
1996 was 19,103,587 and over 865,347 individuals 18 years and older have been
diagnosed with diabetes. The Texas Diabetes Council reported that one half of
the persons with diabetes in Texas have not been diagnosed, indicating that over
1,730,694 individuals in the state have diabetes.
The Texas Diabetes Council reported the Texas diabetes prevalence rate at 6.5% of the population in Texas, suggesting that the Rio Grande Valley (population: 850,399) has a diabetes population of approximately 74,587. These figures indicate a RGV diabetes population of approximately one out of every thirteen individuals. The Texas-Mexico Border Diabetes Registry Project reported 21.4% prevalence with a diabetes population of over 180, 000 persons in the RGV (one out of every five individuals). Also contributing to the burgeoning population of the border area is an extraordinarily high birth rate and decreasing death rate in Mexico, together with the continuing shift of the U.S. population to the "Sun Belt" states and the tremendous transient traffic across the border. An average of nearly 300 million crossings per year - 41 million occurred between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua alone in 1988. |