Annual Direct and Indirect Costs of Diabetic Retinopathy

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Title: Estimating the Current and Future Costs of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes in the UK: Including direct health costs and indirect societal and productivity costs
Publication: Diabetic Medicine
Publication Date: 2010
Pages: 855-62
URL: Read Full Resource

Title: Prevalence and Healthcare Costs of Diabetic Retinopathy: A population-based register study in Sweden
Publication: Diabetologia
Publication Date: 2010
Volume & Issue: Volume 53, Issue 10
Pages: 2147-54
URL: Read Full Resource

More than 29 million people in the U.S.—9.3% of the population, had diabetes in 2014. Of those, 8 million people were undiagnosed. [ Get More Details ]
Proportion of People with Diabetes with Diabetic Retinopathy of Any Severity, by Country
Map figures are for both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. [ Get More Details ]
In addition to Americans that have diabetes, an additional 30% of adults have pre-diabetes, a condition marked by elevated blood sugar that is not yet in the diabetic range. [ Get More Details ]
About 1/4 of Americans age 60 and over had diabetes (either physician diagnosed or undiagnosed) in 2003-2006. [ Get More Details ]
Global DR Prevalence
The overall prevalence of global DR is 34.6%—6.96% for PDR, 6.81% for DME, and 10.2% for vision-threatening DR. [ Get More Details ]