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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
When Stewart Perry offers insight and advice on the disease he has battled for years, he hopes people listen. Perry, former chairman of the board of the American Diabetes Association and former Bluegrass board president, knows the problem first-hand. He suffers from Type 2 diabetes.
There?s a sense of alarm in Perry?s voice when he talks about what diabetes, which keeps the body from regulating the amount of sugar in the blood, is doing to Kentuckians and to our state as a whole.
?Diabetes in Kentucky is a $4.8 billion problem. [Those are] direct and indirect costs that include lost production,? said Perry. ?Kentucky is second only to Oklahoma in the percentage increase in the prevalence of diabetes.
http://bizlex.com/2013/10/study-fin...sted-productivity-and-squandered-tax-dollars/
There?s a sense of alarm in Perry?s voice when he talks about what diabetes, which keeps the body from regulating the amount of sugar in the blood, is doing to Kentuckians and to our state as a whole.
?Diabetes in Kentucky is a $4.8 billion problem. [Those are] direct and indirect costs that include lost production,? said Perry. ?Kentucky is second only to Oklahoma in the percentage increase in the prevalence of diabetes.
http://bizlex.com/2013/10/study-fin...sted-productivity-and-squandered-tax-dollars/