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Post by lakers on May 7, 2018 21:18:17 GMT -5
Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2017 Diabetes Care 2018 May; 41(5): 917-928. RESULTS The total estimated cost of diagnosed diabetes in 2017 is $327 billion, including $237 billion in direct medical costs and $90 billion in reduced productivity. For the cost categories analyzed, care for people with diagnosed diabetes accounts for 1 in 4 health care dollars in the U.S., and more than half of that expenditure is directly attributable to diabetes. People with diagnosed diabetes incur average medical expenditures of ∼$16,750 per year, of which ∼$9,600 is attributed to diabetes. People with diagnosed diabetes, on average, have medical expenditures ∼2.3 times higher than what expenditures would be in the absence of diabetes. Indirect costs include increased absenteeism ($3.3 billion) and reduced productivity while at work ($26.9 billion) for the employed population, reduced productivity for those not in the labor force ($2.3 billion), inability to work because of disease-related disability ($37.5 billion), and lost productivity due to 277,000 premature deaths attributed to diabetes ($19.9 billion). CONCLUSIONS After adjusting for inflation, economic costs of diabetes increased by 26% from 2012 to 2017 due to the increased prevalence of diabetes and the increased cost per person with diabetes. The growth in diabetes prevalence and medical costs is primarily among the population aged 65 years and older, contributing to a growing economic cost to the Medicare program. The estimates in this article highlight the substantial financial burden that diabetes imposes on society, in addition to intangible costs from pain and suffering, resources from care provided by nonpaid caregivers, and costs associated with undiagnosed diabetes. care.diabetesjournals.org/content/41/5/917?t=1&cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjc18y&refsrc=email&iid=c791b8bc21064422a6c42d384cdaf83f&uid=2189122992&nid=244+293670920
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Post by akemp3000 on May 7, 2018 22:24:38 GMT -5
Dr. Kendall should start every speech and conversation with this enormous cost followed by a proclamation that current standards of care are not working. Further that A1c should now be considered an antiquated measurement when compared to time-in-range. All attention in the industry moving forward should be focused on: 1) time-in-range, 2) preventing or stopping meal-time spikes and 3) subsequent hypoglycemia. We already know where this leads without him even having to say it
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2018 7:57:48 GMT -5
Over 36% of the US population is obese. Diabetes alone can bankrupt the US healthcare system. Have any of you seen TV or Internet ads lately regarding taking a brief self test to determine if you are pre-diabetic? These ads are pretty prevalent these days. A few years ago there was a piece published that the population of those who would be eligible for the draft was so overweight, it would present a significant issue if a draft was ever needed although 8 weeks of basic training would likely reduce the problem. www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
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Post by sportsrancho on May 10, 2018 8:55:13 GMT -5
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