Type 2 diabetes mellitus: the grand over
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Robert E. Ratner
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Type 2 diabetes currently accounts for over 100 billion dollars in annual healthcare expenditure in the United States and 28 % of the national (Medicare) healthcare budget for elderly Americans. In our inner-city hospital, 20 % of all 950 beds are occupied by patients with diabetes; and 28-38 % of p