More Than Half Of Us Could Have Diabetes By 2020 - Polidicks

Source: [url]http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/23/diabetes-or-prediabetes-predicted-for-half-of-americans-by-2020/?hpt=T2[/url] [quote] More than half of all Americans will have diabetes or prediabetes by the year 2020, at a cumulative cost of $3.35 trillion unless something drastically changes with U.S. health trends, according to a new analysis conducted by UnitedHealth Group's Center for Health Reform and Modernization. Study investigators say diabetes and prediabetes will also account for an estimated 10 percent of total health care spending by the end of the decade at an annual cost of almost $500 billion. That's up from an estimated $194 billion in 2010. The report, "The United States of Diabetes: Challenges and Opportunities in the Decade Ahead," was unveiled this week, because November is National Diabetes Prevention month. The study offers solutions designed to improve health and life expectancy, while also saving up to $250 billion over the next 10 years. Approximately 26 million Americans have diabetes. Diabetes is one of the fastest growing diseases in the country, according to the American Diabetes Association. Experts predict that one out of three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetimes, which will raise their risks for heart and kidney disease, nerve damage, blindness and limb amputation. An additional 67 million Americans are estimated to have prediabetes. In prediabetes, there are often no symptoms. In fact, the ADA notes more than 60 million Americans do not know they are on the verge of developing this dangerous illness. Just last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report projecting that one in three Americans would have diabetes by 2050. The CDC “Obesity is a significant contributor to the new cases of diabetes. It is certainly a factor,” Ann Albright, director of the CDC's Division of Diabetes Translation tells CNN. The most recent report by UnitedHealth addressed a number of strategies to combat diabetes over the next 10 years, focusing primarily on obesity, creating early intervention program to prevent prediabetes, instituting stronger medication programs and educating Americans on lifestyle changes they can make to combat or control their diabetes. "There is nothing inevitable about these trends," said Simon Stevens, executive vice president, UnitedHealth Group, and chairman of the UnitedHealth Center for Health Reform and Modernization. "What is now needed is concerted, national, multi-stakeholder action." "Making a major impact on the prediabetes and diabetes epidemic will require health plans to engage consumers in new ways, while working to scale nationally some of the most promising preventive care models. Done right, the human and economic benefits for the nation could be substantial."[/quote] Honestly, I can see it happening.

I'm not American.

[QUOTE=Saphirx;26244701]I'm not American.[/QUOTE] So? You're in today's sugar, fat and glucose filled society.

Diabetes is a fad.

[QUOTE=faze;26244708]So? You're in today's sugar, fat and glucose filled society.[/QUOTE] Not everyone gobbles down shit like that everyday.

[QUOTE=angelangel;26244714]Not everyone gobbles down shit like that everyday.[/QUOTE] Most people do apparently.

I just ate a chocolate bar and am drinking cola right now and don't give a flying fuck about it.

[QUOTE=Kalkka;26244718]I just ate a chocolate bar and am drinking cola right now and don't give a flying fuck about it.[/QUOTE] Enjoy your diabetes. probably

[QUOTE=faze;26244708]So? You're in today's sugar, fat and glucose filled society.[/QUOTE] But you don't have to eat lots of sugar and candy.

[QUOTE=angelangel;26244725]Enjoy your diabetes. probably[/QUOTE] I will. That chocolate bar was actually the first I've had in approx. 3 weeks. And I'm not that big of a fan of colas or any other soft drinks. It's just funny how the once I let myself slip a little, I see this thread.

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[QUOTE=faze;26244717]Americans do apparently.[/QUOTE] Fixed

[QUOTE=Kalkka;26244718]I just ate a chocolate bar and am drinking cola right now and don't give a flying fuck about it.[/QUOTE] You won't be able to give a flying fuck when you're in a coma.

They add sugar to everything even meat. I had diabetes for a couple of months when i had something messed up in the stomach i don't know the english word for, took a couple of shots and they were a bitch.

[QUOTE=Brage Nyman;26245550]They add sugar to everything even meat.[/QUOTE] Fuckin' ay.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;26245487]You won't be able to give a flying fuck when you're in a coma.[/QUOTE] You also can't give fucks whom fly when you're dead.

That's implying we live past 2012.

One mentos, four snickers and some jelly beans. Here I come!

Oh god it says more than half of 'us' not 'US' so I thought there was some kind of airborne diabetes or some shit. Then I realized it was just fat american children. [editline]23rd November 2010[/editline] [QUOTE=Stopper;26245732]One mentos, four snickers and some jelly beans. Here I come![/QUOTE] If you can get up.

[QUOTE=faze;26244465]Source: [URL]http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/23/diabetes-or-prediabetes-predicted-for-half-of-americans-by-2020/?hpt=T2[/URL] Honestly, I can see it happening.[/QUOTE] Not everyone porks down deep-fried twinkies and cola every day.

[QUOTE=Strongbad;26245851]Not everyone porks down deep-fried twinkies and cola every day.[/QUOTE] Statistically speaking, most do.

[QUOTE=RayDark;26245841]Oh god it says more than half of 'us' not 'US' so I thought there was some kind of airborne diabetes or some shit. Then I realized it was just fat american children. [/QUOTE] How many times have you tried to troll and failed so hard that your femurs burst out of your legs(or what's left of them; most of it's just 'padding') and rocket into the sky?

There will probably be a cure for diabetes by 2020, So... [quote]i dont give a fukk[/quote] Oh, it was Only in America.

[QUOTE=faze;26245868]Statistically speaking, most do.[/QUOTE] Lolno. You're speaking from a viewpoint born of ignorance when you say most people eat that kind of food every day. I mean, have you ever even been to the US? I don't think most of the people who talk smack about it have. Most are probably fat 23-year-olds who live in their mum's basements, trying to either draw attention away from themselves or to make them feel better about themselves.

[QUOTE=Strongbad;26245899]Lolno. You're speaking from a viewpoint born of ignorance when you say most people eat that kind of food every day. I mean, have you ever even been to the US? I don't think most of the people who talk smack about it have. Most are probably fat 23-year-olds who live in their mum's basements, trying to either draw attention away from themselves or to make them feel better about themselves.[/QUOTE] Uh...I live here. I'm about an hour north of D.C.

[QUOTE=faze;26245909]Uh...I live here. I'm about an hour north of D.C.[/QUOTE] I stand corrected. Most people who bash the US on FP are Brits. My point still stands, though. Let the people who eat twinkies and drink soda every day get Diabetes-they know what they're doing to themselves.

[QUOTE=Strongbad;26245971]I stand corrected. Most people who bash the US on FP are Brits. My point still stands, though. Let the people who eat twinkies and drink soda every day get Diabetes-they know what they're doing to themselves.[/QUOTE] Not always...trust me, a lot of people in this country are not all that smart. Especially the southerners.

I thought it was common knowledge that eating that crap every day makes your body hate you. I guess I was wrong to think that.

[QUOTE=Strongbad;26246009]I thought it was common knowledge that eating that crap every day makes your body hate you. I guess I was wrong to think that.[/QUOTE] Definately not.