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The number of Americans with diabetes is growing at a rate of 8% a year.
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American Diabetes Association. "Federal Legislative Priorities for the 109th Congress". [ Permalink ]

Conservative estimates predict that diabetes prevalence will increase 165% between 2000 and 2050.
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Boyle, James P., Amanda A. Honeycutt, K.M. Venkat Narayan, Thomas J. Hoerger, Linda S. Geiss, Hong Chen, and Theodore Thompson. "Projection of Diabetes Burden Through 2050: Impact of changing demography and disease prevalence in the U.S". Diabetes Care . Vol. 24, pp. 1936-40. [ Permalink ]

By 2030, more than 30 million Americans could have diabetes--71% higher than in 2000.
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Giorgianni, Salvatore J., John Grana, and Lisa Scipioni. "Global Impact of Innovations on Chronic Disease in the Genomics Era". The Pfizer Journal. Vol. 11, [ Permalink ]

The number of people age 75 and older with diabetes is projected to increase from 2 million in 2000 to 8.6 million in 2050.
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Boyle, James P., Amanda A. Honeycutt, K.M. Venkat Narayan, Thomas J. Hoerger, Linda S. Geiss, Hong Chen, and Theodore Thompson. "Projection of Diabetes Burden Through 2050: Impact of changing demography and disease prevalence in the U.S". Diabetes Care . Vol. 24, pp. 1936-40. [ Permalink ]

An estimated 41 million people between the ages of 40 and 74 have pre-diabetes, and most will develop type 2 diabetes within 10 years.
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American Diabetes Association. "Pre-Diabetes". [ Permalink ]

Projections of the U.S. population diagnosed with diabetes (in millions)
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American Diabetes Association. "Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2002". Diabetes Care. Vol. 26, pp. 917-32. [ Permalink ]

Chronic Disease Projected to Become More Prevalent: Prevalence of diabetes is projected to nearly double 2000-2030
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PhRMA. The Value of Medicines: Facts and figures 2006. Washington, D.C.: 2006. [ Permalink ]

Following the current path, diabetes cases will increase by 52.9% between 2003 and 2023.
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DeVol, Ross, Armen Bedroussian, Anita Charuworn, Anusuya Chatterjee, In Kyu Kim, Soojung Kim, and Kevin Klowden . An Unhealthy America: The economic burden of chronic disease. The Milken Institute. October 2007. [ Permalink ]

The annual cost of diabetes, in 2002 dollars, could rise to an estimated $156 billion by 2010, and $192 billion by 2020.
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American Diabetes Association. "Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2002". Diabetes Care. Vol. 26, pp. 917-32. [ Permalink ]

The cost of complications for type 2 diabetics over a 30-year period are estimated at $47,240 per patient.
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Cutler, David M. and Mark McClellan. "Is Technological Change in Medicine Worth It?". Health Affairs. Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 11-29. [ Permalink ]

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