Diabetes patients reach 12.17 million in 5 years, costing KRW 8.511 trillion

Patients with diabetes, the most common adult disease of Korea, have been increasing for the past 5 years.

According to a report The Minjoo Party Rep. Dong-Min Ki received from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service about the national status of diabetes patients, the number of patients who visited a hospital for diabetes was total 12.17 million between 2012 and 2016, and they spent...