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Updated Saturday, November 28, 2009 12:34 am TWN, Reuters

U.S. diabetes cases to double; costs triple by '34

CHICAGO -- By 2034, nearly twice as many Americans will have diabetes and spending on the disease will triple, further straining the U.S. health system and testing the viability of Medicare and other government health insurance programs, U.S. researchers said on Friday.

“We forecast that in the next 25 years, the population size of people with diabetes ─ both diagnosed and undiagnosed ─ will rise from approximately 24 million people to 44 million people by the year 2034,” said Dr. Elbert Huang of the University of Chicago, whose study appears in the journal Diabetes Care.

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