State Paid Health Care systems are especially exposed to TTD. PEI has one of the highest exposures to TTD. So if we are to work on the demand side - The Real Science behind the epidemic and a Program that works socially has to become a priority on PEI.
To put the risk into perspective here is the threat to the UK's National Health System - We are not alone here!
The key is to shift from treating symptons to helping people avoid the disease and to pull them back when they have it.
Report: Rising Diabetes Costs Could Bankrupt NHS
The disease and its complications currently account for 10% (£9.8bn) of NHS spending.
But this is projected to rise to £16.9bn over the next 25 years, or 17% of the health service's funds.
Researchers at the York Health Economic Consortium also found that up to four-fifths of the cost of treating complications such as kidney failure, nerve damage, and amputation could be avoided by investing in better preventative measures and management of the condition.
The Impact Diabetes report - published in conjunction with charities Diabetes UK, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and Sanofi Diabetes, also looked at the indirect costs to individuals living with the condition.
It found the total associated with these extra burdens in addition to direct patient care in the UK stands at £23.7bn and is predicted to rise to £39.8bn by 2035/36.
There are around 3.8 million people living with diabetes in the UK and this is expected to increase to 6.25 million in just over two decades.
Barbara Young, chief executive of Diabetes UK, said: "This report shows that without urgent action, the already huge sums of money being spent on treating diabetes will rise to unsustainable levels that threaten to bankrupt the NHS.
"But the most shocking part of this report is the finding that almost four-fifths of NHS diabetes spending goes on treating complications that in many cases could have been prevented.
"The failure to do more to prevent these complications is both a tragedy for the people involved and a damning indictment of the failure to implement the clear and recommended solutions.
