Diabetes Cost U.S. $174B In 2007; Cases Continue To Rise
About one million people are diagnosed with diabetes each year, the report said. The condition costs almost as much as cancer, which totaled $206.3 billion in 2006, but fewer people die from diabetes than from cancer, USA Today reports.
The report also found that:About half of people with diabetes have health insurance through public health insurance programs;
About half the cost of treating diabetes comes from inpatient care;
Diabetes increases hospital stays for other conditions by almost 50%;
Routine care to treat the condition has a relatively low cost; and
Most of the cost comes when the disease is unmanaged (Szabo, USA Today, 1/24). The report is available online (.pdf).
ABC's "World News" on Wednesday reported on the study. The segment includes comments from Ann Albright, president of ADA; Arthur Frank, medical director of the Weight Management Program at George Washington University Hospital; David Nathan, director of the Diabetes Center at Massachusetts General Hospital; and William Russell of Vanderbilt Children's Hospital (Stark, "World News," ABC, 1/23). A video excerpt of Nathan's comments is available online. Expanded ABC News coverage also is available online.
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