A new study published in the journal Diabetes Care this week concludes that the rate of diabetes will double in the next 25 years and the costs of dealing with this epidemic will triple over the same period.
Currently over 23.7 million Americans are living with diabetes and according to the Centers for Disease Control, diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death, killing over 63,000 people in 2002 and contributing to another 213,000 deaths.
According to the new study by researchers at the University of Chicago, over 44 million Americans will have diabetes in the year 2034 and the annual healthcare costs associated with the disease will balloon from the current $113 billion to $336 billion
The lead author of the study, Elbert Huang, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, cautioned that diabetes will overburden the healthcare system unless there is a change in our diet and exercise habits or new, more effective and less expensive ways to prevent and treat diabetes are developed.
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/
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