Short-Term Trends in Economic Burden and Catastrophic Costs of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Rural Southwest China

Table 2

Cost of illness of diabetes (in US$) by survey year in rural Yunnan Province, China.

Cost components	2009					2016
	Unit cost			Total	% of total cost of illness	Unit cost			Total	% of total cost of illness
	Male	Female	All			Male	Female	All
Direct medical costs	1168.1	995.3	998.0	77,193,729.0	87.8	1326.8	1237.5	1273.8	121,436,449.2	90.9
Outpatient visits	62.3	38.5	48.0	3,709,008.0	4.3	65.2	34.5	45.5	4,337,697.0	3.2
Hospitalizations	866.6	713.4	709.5	54,823,774.5	62.3	1006.8	1029.0	1016.2	96,878,410.8	72.5
Medications	239.2	253.4	251.5	18,660,946.5	21.2	254.8	174.0	212.1	20,220,341.4	15.1
Direct nonmedical costs	111.6	59.0	73.0	5,640,783.0	6.3	71.1	34.5	65.5	6,244,377.0	4.7
Direct costs	1279.7	1054.3	1072.0	82,834,512.0	96.3	1397.9	1272.0	1339.3	127,680,826.2	95.6
Indirect costs	61.2	32.1	55.1	5,168,111.0	5.9	64.8	51.3	62.0	5,910,708.0	4.4
Total cost of illness	1335.3	1083.5	1113.0	88,002,623.0	100.0	1462.7	1323.3	1401.3	133,591,534.2	100.0

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