Saturday, January 1, 2011

Trends in Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity - Disturbing

Ninety percent of the people diagonsed with diabetes are told they are Type 2 diabetic, that is being resistant to the effects of insulin or not making enough for their use).
In a November 2009 report, researchers at the University of Chicago indicate that:.
*Nearly doubling in the next 25 years, those with diabetes are expected to increasefrom 24 million today to 44 million people assuming that the proportion of obese people stay constant.
*The cost of treating these diabetes cases will grow nearly three times from 113 to 336 billion dollars over the same time, measured in constant 2007 dollars (adjusted for inflation).
*The Medicare portion of spending on diabetes is expected to increase from 45 to 171 billion dollars.
The cost of

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