Continued from Yesterday
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that nearly 24 million Americans (including 23% of those over age 60) suffer from type 2 diabetes.1 More than 50% of people over 65 have diabesity. Nearly 6 million diabetics are undiagnosed. Diabetes and the resultant cardiovascular mortality is a global problem outpacing infectious disease as a cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries.2 It now affects more than 240 million people worldwide and is projected to affect 380 million by the year 2030. This is nearly 10 times the number of
people affected by HIV/AIDS worldwide.3 Diabesity has been identified as one of the leading causes of cardiovascular disease,4 dementia5 and cancer.6
Consider this: From 1983 to 2008, the number of people in the world with diabetes increased seven-fold, from 35 million to 240 million. Shouldn’t our main question be why this is happening, rather than what new drug we can find to treat it?
Diabesity also places a large economic burden on our society. The direct and indirect costs of diabetes in America in 2007 amounted to $174 billion. The cost of obesity is also significant, amounting to $113 billion every year. During the past 10 years, these two conditions cost America alone a total of $3 trillion. That’s three times the estimated cost of fixing our entire health care system! Between 2009 and 2034, the number of people with diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetes will increase from 23.7 million to 44.1 million in the United States. During the same period, annual diabetes-related spending is expected to increase from $113 billion to $336 billion (2007 dollars).7
C0ntinued Tomorrow
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