"About 6.3 million Americans have diabetes without knowing it, and complications from their undiagnosed disease account for an estimated $18 billion in U.S. healthcare costs each year, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.Or $3 per person for each person on the planet.
Prior studies have shown that diabetes cost the U.S. economy about $174 billion in 2007 in medical expenses and lost productivity...
They estimated that undiagnosed diabetes in 2007 cost an additional $2,864 per person, or a total of $18 billion per year."
And that is for the undiagnosed cases only.
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