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Cost of Diabetes in Michigan (2010)

Cost of Diabetes in Michigan (2010)

The cost of treating diabetes is expected to triple over the next 25 years (Diabetes Care 32: 2225-2229, 2009).

  Cost per person Estimated number of adults with type of diabetes in MI Estimated cost to Michigan
Diagnosed diabetes1 $9,963 716,300 $7.2 billion
Undiagnosed diabetes2 $2,864 372,300 $1.0 billion
Prediabetes3 $443 2,578,500 $1.1 billion
Gestational diabetes4 $3,305 9,850 $32.5 million


1 Source: American Diabetes Association. Economic costs of diabetes in the U.S. in 2007. Diabetes Care 31: 1-20, 2008. (Cost per person includes both direct medical costs and indirect costs)

Methods: The estimated number of adults with diagnosed diabetes was calculated by multiplying the prevalence of adult diagnosed diabetes from the 2008-2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (MI BRFSS) and Michigan's adult population from 2010 Census data (www.census.gov).The estimate was rounded to the nearest 100.
2 Source: Zhang Y, Dall TM, Mann SE, Chen Y, Martin J, Moore V, Baldwin A, Reidel VA, and Quick WW. The economic costs of undiagnosed diabetes. Population Health Management 12(2): 95-101, 2009.

Methods: The estimated number of adults with undiagnosed diabetes was calculated using the estimated number of adults with diagnosed diabetes and applying the published ratio that 34.2% of all adult diabetes cases are undiagnosed from the 2005-2006 National Health Examination and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) (Diabetes Care 32: 287-294, 2009). The estimate was rounded to the nearest 100.
3 Source: Zhang Y, Dall TM, Chen Y, Baldwin A, Yang W, Mann SE, Moore V, Le Nestour E, and Quick WW. Medical cost associated with prediabetes. Population Health Management 12(3): 157-163, 2009.

Methods: The estimated number of adults with prediabetes was calculated by multiplying the prevalence of adult prediabetes from the 2005-2006 National Health Examination and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) and Michigan's adult population from 2010 Census data (www.census.gov). The estimate was rounded to the nearest 100.
4 Source: Chen Y, Quick WW, Yang W, Zhang Y, Baldwin A, Moran J, Moore V, Sahai N, and Dall TM. Cost of gestational diabetes mellitus in the United States in 2007. Population Health Management 12(3): 165-174, 2009.

Methods: The estimated number of pregnant women with gestational diabetes was calculated by multiplying the gestational diabetes prevalence from the 2009 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) and the number of live births in 2009 in Michigan from the State Natality Statistics. The estimate was rounded to the nearest 100.