WASHINGTON, March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — A new study conducted
by the Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) identified
California, Texas, Florida, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Georgia,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Michigan as “diabetes hot spots,”
where the burden of diabetes will be greatest in the next 15 years.
“United States’ Diabetes Crisis: Today and Future
Trends,” is the first study to provide detailed diabetes
prevalence and cost forecasts individually for all 50 states. The
study was commissioned and funded by Novo Nordisk to provide
insights into how the growing diabetes epidemic will spread
geographically in the United States and how this demographic shift
might affect local economies.
The IAF diabetes model estimates that the overall number of
people in the United States living with diabetes will increase 64
percent by 2025 from 32.3 million today to 53.1 million.(1) This
equates to 1 in 7 Americans. The resulting medical and
societal cost of diabetes will be almost $514 billion – a 72
percent increase from 2010(1) and comparable to the total budget
for Medicare in 2010.(2) Currently, the ten states identified as
diabetes hot spots shoulder nearly 60 percent of the cost from
diabetes, or approximately $176 billion(1) of the total $299
billion.(1) In fifteen years, the cost of diabetes to these ten
states is projected to jump to $297 billion,(1) or nearly the cost
of diabetes to the entire United States today. The breakdown of
Americans with diabetes in 2025 within the ten diabetes hot spots
and the cost to each state are predicted to be as follows:
- California: Projected cost of $63.63 billion, 6.6
million people with diabetes (1) - Texas: Projected cost of $52.17 billion, 5.5 million
people with diabetes(1) - Florida: Projected cost of $40.43 billion, 4.2 million
people with diabetes(1) - New York: Projected cost of $28.38 b
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