Diabetes and New Mexicans

The Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (DPCP) conducts diabetes surveillance and program planning which focuses on state wide diabetes intervention and prevention objectives and activities. For information on our prevention and intervention activities, please visit our website.

How many people in New Mexico have diabetes? How does this compare to the United States? What are the data on diabetes complications? These are questions that people often ask. On this website you will find documents which provide data to help address these questions. For example, there are graphics on the trends of diabetes prevalence in the state, a county level prevalence sheet, and statistics about risk factors for diabetes, among others. New reports will be added periodically to this site.

• Estimates indicate there are 120,000 people with diabetes in New Mexico
• The DPCP Program was began in 1994 with a grant from the CDC
• The State of New Mexico added funding starting in 1998

Our mission is to reduce the burden of diabetes in New Mexico and improve the quality of life for all New Mexicans who are affected and/or impaired by diabetes, by preventing and controlling the complications of diabetes.