Air date: January 17, 2010

Host: Steve Bogdewic, PhD

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Interview: Elbert Huang, MD, assistant professor of medicine, University of Chicago

The medical equivalent of a tidal wave is heading toward the U.S. in the form of a flood of new cases of diabetes. A new study projects that American diabetes rates will double over the next quarter century.

There’s a good news/bad news aspect to this: Because treatment protocols have improved, people with diabetes now tend to live longer and develop more complications, so the overall cost of treating diabetes could triple.

Dr. Elbert Huang of the University of Chicago conducted the study. He discusses his research with Sound Medicine’s Steve Bogdewic.

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about the rise of diabetes in the United States in the NYT.

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