Table 2.
Direct cost of diabetes mellitus (DM) by in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) sub–region, 2015
| Item | Latin America |
English Caribbean |
Total |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
S1 |
S2 |
S1 |
S2 |
S1 |
S2 |
|
| Medication: | ||||||
| No. of insulin users (×103) | 3869 | 6550 | 184 | 364 | 4054 | 6915 |
| No. of oral medication users (×103) | 18 851 | 32 046 | 898 | 1 527 | 19 749 | 33 573 |
| Cost of insulin (US$×106) | 6671 | 10971 | 324 | 640 | 6995 | 11611 |
| Cost of oral medication (US$×106) | 3811 | 6479 | 218 | 370 | 4029 | 6849 |
| Total cost of medication (US$×106) |
10 482 |
17 450 |
542 |
1 010 |
11 024 |
18 460 |
|
Cost of exams (US$×106) |
1252 |
2584 |
128 |
274 |
1380 |
2859 |
| Consultations: | ||||||
| Total no. consultations (×103) | 266 169 | 321 546 | 13 538 | 15 605 | 279 708 | 337 151 |
| DM related causes (×103) | 101 523 | 156 899 | 3 789 | 5 856 | 105 312 | 162 755 |
| Cost DM related causes (US$×106) | 4872 | 6536 | 196 | 270 | 5068 | 6806 |