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What's the cost of diabetes in america?
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$174 billion: Recent estimates put the total cost of diagnosed diabetes at $174 billion. Add on projected costs of undiagnosed diabetes and gestational diabetes and that rises to $218 billion.
Answered 7/5/2012
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About US$180 billion: Estimates like these are fraught with difficulties. Anyway you look at it the number is huge. Figure in prediabetes, gestational diabetes and undiagnosed diabetes and total cost is somewhere around $220 billion. Data from the american diabetic association national diabetes fact sheet.
Answered 6/30/2012
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