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Paying to prevent diabetes is cost effective

Medical News Today
June 12

Sixty million Americans, nearly one-third of the U.S. adult population, are pre-diabetic. A study published in the June issue of the journal Diabetes Care has found that it would be cost effective for Medicare to pay for diabetes prevention at age 50 rather than to deny prevention benefits until age 65 when many individuals will have already developed the disease. "Diabetes is growing with the increasing rate of obesity and has reached epidemic proportions in this country," says Ronald Ackermann, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and first author of the study.

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