Table 6.

Prevalence of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension among women, men and older adults in each region of the country

Condition/age group	Finding	North	Center	South	Southwest	Mexico City	National
		%	%	%	%	%	%
Type 2 diabetes
Women	Previously diagnosed	7.9	6.2	6.5	10.6	7.2	7.4
	Finding in survey	1.8	1.8	1.2	1.9	1.1	1.7
	Total	9.7	8.0	7.7	12.5	8.3	9.1
Men	Previously diagnosed	6.5	6.4	7.5	10.6	6.9	7.2
	Finding in survey	1.1	1.2	2.0	0.7	1.2	1.1
	Total	7.5	7.6	9.5	11.3	8.1	8.3
Older adults	Previously diagnosed	30.7	29.5	25.7	32.1	30.4	30.0
	Finding in survey	1.3	1.6	2.5	1.3	1.9	1.6
	Total	32.0	31.1	28.2	33.4	32.3	31.6
Hypertension
Women	Previously diagnosed	13.8	11.0	13.0	18.9	9.3	12.5
	Finding in survey	13.6	9.1	10.1	8.1	6.9	9.5
	Total	27.4	20.1	23.1	27.0	16.2	22.0
Men	Previously diagnosed	7.8	7.7	11.0	11.4	6.3	8.2
	Finding in survey	17.5	12.5	11.2	14.6	9.2	13.2
	Total	25.3	20.2	22.2	26.0	15.5	21.4
Older adults	Previously diagnosed	43.1	43.3	34.0	41.6	46.9	43.0
	Finding in survey	18.9	16.2	19.7	15.0	7.4	15.4
	Total	62.0	59.5	53.7	56.6	54.3	58.4

Source: Encoprevenimss 2006