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Diabetes cases to double and costs to triple by 2034

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Thu, 11/26/2009 - 23:00

(University of Chicago Medical Center) In the next 25 years, the number of Americans living with diabetes will double and spending on diabetes will triple, rising from $113 billion to $336 billion.

This will add to the existing strains on an overburdened health care system.


 

Diabetes rate doubles over 10 years, US says

Headlines from the Associated Press  Thu, 10/30/2008 - 10:02

ATLANTA (AP) -- The rate of new diabetes cases nearly doubled in the United States in the last 10 years, with the highest levels in the South, the government said Thursday in its first state-by-state review of new diagnoses....