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Direct cost (hospitalization, physician services, surgery, equipment, laboratory tests, medications) and indirect cost (illness, disability, mortality) associated with diabetes are disproportionate, compared with the cost associated with many other diseases. This data shown very costly nature of the chronic complications of diabetes, which include blindness, kidney failure, gangrene and amputation of the extremities, in addition to a substantially increased risk of cardiovascular diseases