Table 3.

Incidence studies on the costs of diabetes

References	Country	Time horizon	Population	Approach	Results
[52]	Canada	1992–2001	Incidence T2D pts from Saskatchewan Health’s administrative database in Canada	Sum-all medical	Highest total healthcare costs at year of diagnosis with CAN$7,343 ($7,635), then increased from a low of CANS$3,880 ($4,034) 3 years after diagnosis to CAN$4,441 ten years thereafter ($4,618)
[19]	Colombia	32 years	Hypothetical average Columbian T2D pt	Sum-all medical	Total lifetime costs (32-year period) of average diabetes pt, including direct and indirect costs, 57.565 million Colombian pesos ($54,351)
[21]	Germany	1995–2003	Newly diagnosed T2D pts from randomly drawn practices across Germany	Sum-all medical	€1,288 ($1,635) for the first treatment year after diabetes diagnosis and increased to €3,845 ($4,880) in the 7th year
[73]	USA	1997–1998	Women employed by nationwide operating company and hypothetical women above age 64 receiving Medicare	RB/matching	$282,973 incremental lifetime direct healthcare costs, using incidence-based, steady-state methodology

pt(s) patient(s), RB regression based, T2D type 2 diabetes