Facts and Statistics

• Costs of Smoking
  • Annual health care costs in Kentucky directly caused by smoking $1.50 billion
  • Smoking-caused productivity losses in Kentucky $2.13 billion
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• Costs of Obesity
  • 1 of 4 Kentucky adults are obese
  • Obesity-attributed medical expenditures (in 2003 dollars) is $1.1 billion
    
    
• Cost of Diabetes
  • The direct cost (medical care) and indirect cost (loss of productivity and premature mortality) of diabetes in Kentucky totaled approximately $2.9 billion in 2002.
  • It is estimated that 29% of diabetes cases are undiagnosed, which means that an additional 127,200 Kentucky adults may have undiagnosed diabetes.
  • Based on these estimates, approximately 385,900 (about 12.5%, or 1 in 8) adult Kentuckians have diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes.
    
    
• Cost of Heart Disease
  • Nearly 60 million American adults have high blood pressure (HBP)
  • One-third of them do not know they have the condition
    • 28% Kentucky adults have HBP
    • 38% have high cholesterol
    • 22% have never had their cholesterol checked