MOSCOW - The state Department of Health and Welfare says one in every eight adults living in a region of northern Idaho that includes Latah County has been diagnosed with diabetes.

Department officials announced this month that number of Idaho residents who have been diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled during the past decade.

And prevalence of the disease is slightly higher in north-central Idaho.

While the department says 7.9 percent of adults in Idaho have been diagnosed with diabetes, more than 8 percent of adults in the north-central region of the state have been diagnosed.

That group includes 87-year-old Moscow resident Clara Dockter, who was told she had the diabetes more than a year ago and relies on a local support group to manage the disease.