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Cost of older Australians with diabetes to hit $2.9 billion by 2030: study
The indirect economic cost of rising numbers of ageing Australians with diabetes, measured in 'lost productive life years', is set to hit $2.9 billion a year by 2030, up from $2.1 billion in 2015.