A study published in /PLoS// Medicine /finds that major diabetes complications are a huge economic burden to health care systems around the world, adding new evidence in an area that has focused on cost estimates almost exclusively in the developed world. Philip Clarke from the University of Sydney, Australia, and colleagues estimated the direct costs of different diabetes-related problems to hospitals in 20 low, middle and high-income countries in Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Established Market Economies like Canada, Australia, and those in Western Europe...
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