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Maureen I. Harris, PhD, MPH; Richard C. Eastman, MD

JAMA. 1996;276(15):1261-1262.

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Diabetes mellitus has emerged during the past decade as an important clinical and public health problem in the United States.¹ It is now the leading cause of blindness, the leading cause of end-stage renal disease, and the leading cause of lower-extremity amputations. In addition, people with diabetes have rates of coronary heart disease and stroke that are 2 to 5 times those of people who do not have diabetes. Medical care for diabetic patients has been estimated to cost $100 billion per year, accounting for 15% of all health care costs in the United States and 25% of all Medicare costs.

See also p 1246.

About 8 million adults in the United States have been diagnosed as having diabetes, approximately 90% to 95% of whom have non—insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). The prevalence of known cases of diabetes is 6% to 7% for people aged 45 to 64 years and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, Md.

Footnotes
Corresponding author: Maureen I. Harris, PhD, MPH, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 45, Room 5AN24, Bethesda, MD 20892.

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