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Can you afford the cost of diabetes?

In a new study by researchers based at the University of Chicago, and recently published in the journal “Diabetes Care”, it was determined that the number of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetics will climb from almost 24 million this year to about 44 million in 2034.

Over the same period, annual diabetes related treatment costs are expected to increase from $113 billion to $336 billion, (based on the value of the dollar in the year 2007), and Medicare spending on diabetes is expected to jump from $45 billion to $171 Billion.

This could exceed current projections for all Medicare costs, the researchers said.

Their advice to slow the growth of diabetes was to exercise more.

Now I do not disagree that exercise is very important and does help.

However, diabetes is not a contagious disease, it is a developed disease, and the lack of exercise if far from the whole story. Read the rest of this entry »