Third of Americans will be diabetic
Written on December 16, 2010 – 4:21 pm | by Hunter Appel
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Diabetes is costing the United States up to 160 billion dollars per year and might affect one-third of Americans by the middle of the century, former US President Bill Clinton said Sunday in Dubai.
“By the middle of this century, the diabetes rate in the United States could be as high as one-third of our whole population,” Clinton said on the sidelines of the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Diabetes Leadership Forum held in Dubai.
“If that happens it will dramatically erode the productivity of the economy and place a burden on the cost of the healthcare system,” he added. Read full article…
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