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Article: Economic cost of diabetes mellitus - Minnesota, 1988. (measuring the cost of care and treatment of diabetes mellitus)
- Article from:
- MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Article date:
- April 12, 1991
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For diabetes mellitus (DM) and other chronic diseases, important indicators of disease burden include morbidity, mortality, measures of disability and quality of life, and economic burden. Because of limited area data, however, the economic burden of DM has been difficult to measure. Although national costs for DM have been estimated recently (1-5), state-specific estimates have, in general, not been possible. This report summarizes an analysis prepared by the Minnesota Diabetes Surveillance Project (MDSP), Minnesota Department of Health, that estimated the economic impact of DM in Minnesota for 1988.
The prevalence of DM in Minnesota was obtained from a ...