“Diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate in the United States. According to the CDC’s (Centers for Disease Control) National Diabetes Statistics Report for 2022 cases of diabetes have risen to an estimated 37.3 million and one in five don’t know they have it.
The Cost of Diabetes
- In 2017, the total estimated cost of diagnosed diabetes in the U.S. was $327 billion.
- Total direct estimated costs of diagnosed diabetes increased from $188 billion in 2012 to $237 billion in 2017; total indirect costs increased from $73 billion to $90 billion in the same period (2017 dollars).
- Between 2012 and 2017, excess medical costs per person associated with diabetes increased from $8,417 to $9,601 (2017 dollars)
Remember without insulin, the body’s cells would go thru starvation, due to dehydration and destruction of body cells and tissues.
Diabetes was the seventh leading cause of death in the United States in 2017 based on the 83,564 death certificates in which diabetes was listed as the underlying cause of death.”
Diabetes Research (https://diabetesresearch.org/diabetes-statistics/)