Rising Diabetes Threat and Reduced Budget
The New York Times had an article a few weeks back that caught my eye and I haven’t had a chance to post about it.
Rising Diabetes Threat Meets a Falling Budget - New York Times:
Further diabetes articles from the New York Times.
One of the fastest rising diseases today is diabetes. Now for those not familiar with diabetes, there are basically two types; Type 1 (which use to be called juvenile diabetes) and Type 2 (use to be called adult onset). Now I am familiar with Type 1 since my wife has been diabetic for many years now. The interesting fact is that diabetes has risen quite a bit in recent years.
Detailed data from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) is available with breakdown by age and other factors.
The sad fact though is that money for diabetes related issues is going down even though over 225,000 Americans are affected and the number continues to grow. Another fact is that almost b50% of the people who have diabetes don’t know it and usually don’t until they require hospitalization for complications or another reason and it then gets caught. Diabetes is the primary underlying cause for kidney disease, blindness and non-trauma related amputations.
Graphic: Falling Behind in Research Spending
Some interesting facts:
$ per case for West Nile disease: $16,936
$ per case for Lyme disease: $1,415
$ per case for diabetes: $68
This is based on 14.7 million cases of diabetes reported in 2004 but does NOT include the estimated 6.1 million undiagnosed cases.
Here are many other new articles recently on diabetes.
American Diabetes Association Home Page
Yahoo news search result.
Google news search results.
MSN news search results
Technorati Tags: diabetes
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