A financial toll on patients with type 2 diabetes
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 23-Oct-2025 06:11 ET (23-Oct-2025 10:11 GMT/UTC)
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers used a unique dataset to show that patients with type 2 diabetes have significantly worse financial outcomes than other patients.Findings showed diabetes patients fared worse on all seven financial outcomes studied, including below-prime credit scores, medical and non-medical debt in collections, 60-plus-day delinquent debt, debt charge-offs, bankruptcy filings and foreclosure.
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