An extract article from PA's Impacts newsletter
In the United States, one out of every eight federal health care dollars (12.5%) is spent treating people with diabetes.
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The Centers for Disease Control estimate that 20.8 million people in the US, representing 7% of the total population, have diabetes. That prevalence is predicted to double by 2025 further increasing the already-high financial burden of diabetes.
This expected increase, driven in large part by a corresponding rise in obesity, comes despite numerous efforts to control diabetes, including the ‘Healthy People 2010’ goal.
PA has developed a first generation, proof of principle system dynamics model of diabetes and its C&Cs. This combines a comprehensive clinical landscape with a formal technology classification procedure to create a tool with which to evaluate the impact of existing and emerging technologies.
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