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| This Weeks Question Issue 213 |
You
Are Correct!!!
Which of the following
represents the largest healthcare expenditure attributable to diabetes?
1. Routine follow-up 6 Hours
2. Acute metabolic conditions
3. Chronic complications
4. Loss of work
5. Other
The direct and indirect
costs of diabetes are overwhelming. One in every 7 healthcare dollars
is spent on someone with diabetes. The annual healthcare costs are
3-fold greater for people with diabetes than people without diabetes.
Direct costs are about $85 billion. Total costs are over $100 billion.
Where does all this money go? Not for routine follow-up visits,
not for acute metabolic problems, but for the most part, it goes
for the treatment of the chronic complications of diabetes.
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