The types of costs related to diabetes include the medical costs of treating persons with diabetes, the indirect costs related to early disability or early death, the costs that individuals with diabetes face when they forego spending money in one area to help pay for treating diabetes (opportunity costs), the costs of using resources available inappropriately, and the costs of having too few diabetes services (not everyone gets care) or too many diabetes services.


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