Trimming pounds may cut health costs for diabetics

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Trimming pounds may cut health costs for diabetics

By Shereen Lehman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) â€" Overweight adults with diabetes who lost weight and kept it off lowered their average annual health care costs by more than $500, suggests a new study. “It proved to be very effective - these folks lost weight and kept it off for 10 years,” said Mark Espeland, a researcher at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, who led the study. Espeland told Reuters Health the savings were primarily due to fewer hospitalizations, fewer days in the hospital when someone was hospitalized and reductions in medication use and cost. For the study, published in Diabetes Care, Espeland and his colleagues enrolled 5,121 obese and overweight people at 16 sites across the country, beginning in 2001.

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