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One economic model predicts that if type 1 and type 2 diabetics had begun Captopril (a drug that controls blood pressure and delays the onset of kidney failure) treatment in 1995, the aggregate health care cost savings in 1999 would have been $189 million and in 2004 would have been $475 million-a present value cumulative cost savings of $2.4 billion for those 10 years.
Rodby R, Firth L, Lewis E. An Economic Analysis of Captopril in the Treatment of Diabetic Nephropathy. Diabetes Care. 1996; 19(10): 1051-61. http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/19/10/1051