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Medicare beneficiaries with diabetic macular edema (DME) had 31% higher 1-year costs and 29% higher 3-year costs compared to diabetic Medicare beneficiaries without DME.

-- Shea, Alisa M., Lesley H. Curtis, Bradley G. Hammill, Jonathan W. Kowalski, Arliene Ravelo, Paul P. Lee, Frank A. Sloan, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Resource Use and Costs Associated with Diabetic Macular Edema in Elderly Persons". Arch Opthalmol. Vol. 126, No. 12, pp. 1748-54. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:19:09 -0600 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1880 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1880

Three-year (1993-1995) estimates of medical care charges for patients with diabetes ranged from $10,439 for those without comorbid conditions to $44,417 for those with heart disease and hypertension.

-- Gilmer, Todd P., Patrick J, O'Connor, Willard G. Manning, and William A. Rush. "The Cost to Health Plans of Poor Glycemic Control". Diabetes Care. Vol. 20, No. 12, pp. 1847-53. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:17:49 -0600 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1879 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1879

In 2007, type 1 diabetes cost approximately $14.9 billion (direct medical costs, $10.5 billion; indirect $4.4 billion), while type 2 diabetes cost $159.5 billion (direct medical costs, $105.7 billion; indirect $53.8 billion).

-- Dall, TM, SE Mann, Y Zhang, WW Quick, RF Seifert, J Martin, EA Huang, and S Zhang. "Distinguishing the Economic Costs Associated with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes". Popul Health Manag. Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 103-10. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:16:29 -0600 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1878 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1878

Patients with a long duration of type 2 diabetes were found to have a lower total brain volume and gray and white matter volume than those without the disease.

-- Saczynski, Jane S., Sigurdur Siggurdsson, Palmi Jonsson, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Elin Olafsdottir, Olafur Kjartansson, Tamara B. Harris, Mark A. van Buchem, Vilmundur Gudnason, and Lenore J. Launer. "Glycemic Status and Brain Injury in Older Individuals: The Age Gene/Environment Susceptibility--Reykjavik Study". Diabetes Care. Vol. 32, No. 9, pp. 1608-13. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:14:26 -0600 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1877 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1877

Of Medicare fee-for-service patients with chronic conditions, more are treated for diabetes than any other condition (24.3%).

-- Schneider, Kathleen M., Brian E. O'Donnell, and Debbie Dean. "Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Conditions in the United States' Medicare Population". Health Qual Life Outcomes. Vol. 7, pp. 82. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:13:00 -0600 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1876 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1876

In 2004, 31.3 million Medicare beneficiaries living in the community had diabetes.

-- Adler, Gerald S.. "Diabetes in the Medicare Aged Population, 2004". Health Care Finance Review. Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 69-79. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:11:58 -0600 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1875 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1875

Type 2 diabetes mellitus affects more than 7% of adults in the US and leads to substantial personal and economic burden.

-- Crandall, Jill P., William C. Knowler, Steven E. Kahn, David Marrero, Jose C. Florez, George A. Bray, Steven M. Haffner, Mary Hoskin, and David M. Nathan. "The Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes". Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. Vol. 4, No. 7, pp. 382-93. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:10:55 -0600 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1874 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1874

Type 1 diabetes accounts for an estimated 5.7% (1 million) of the 17.5 million people with diagnosed diabetes.

-- Dall, TM, SE Mann, Y Zhang, WW Quick, RF Seifert, J Martin, EA Huang, and S Zhang. "Distinguishing the Economic Costs Associated with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes". Popul Health Manag. Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 103-10. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:09:42 -0600 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1873 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1873

In 2004, total per person payments from all sources for health care, long-term care and hospice were 3 times higher for Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 and older with Alzheimer's and other dementias than for other Medicare beneficiaries of the same group.

-- Alzheimer's Association. Alzheimer's Disease Facts and Figures 2010. 2010. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:30:10 -0600 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1872 http://www.silverbook.org/fact/1872