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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
UC researchers today are releasing a study revealing the high cost of diabetes to California's health care system.
The joint study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the not-for-profit California Center for Public Health Advocacy, based in Davis, has some compelling findings:
Among hospitalized patients ages 35 or older, 31% had diabetes;
Hospitalizations of diabetics cost nearly $2,200 more per patient than hospitalizations of non-diabetics;
Extra costs, when totted up, hit $1.6 billion a year;
The rate of diabetes was higher among some minority groups, with African-American and Asian-American patients at 39% and Latino patients at 43%.
http://www.californiahealthline.org...tients-in-california-have-diabetes-study-says
The joint study from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and the not-for-profit California Center for Public Health Advocacy, based in Davis, has some compelling findings:
Among hospitalized patients ages 35 or older, 31% had diabetes;
Hospitalizations of diabetics cost nearly $2,200 more per patient than hospitalizations of non-diabetics;
Extra costs, when totted up, hit $1.6 billion a year;
The rate of diabetes was higher among some minority groups, with African-American and Asian-American patients at 39% and Latino patients at 43%.
http://www.californiahealthline.org...tients-in-california-have-diabetes-study-says