Public Law 98–145

Joint Resolution

To designate November 1983 as National Diabetes Month.

Whereas diabetes kills more than all other diseases except cancer and cardiovascular diseases;

Whereas eleven million Americans suffer from diabetes and five million seven hundred thousand of such Americans are not aware of their illness;

Whereas $9,700,000,000 annually are used for health care costs, disability payments, and premature mortality costs due to diabetes;

Whereas up to 85 per centum of all cases of noninsulin-dependent diabetes may be controllable through greater public understanding, awareness, and education; and

Whereas diabetes is a leading cause of blindness, kidney disease, heart disease, stroke, birth defects, and lower life expectancy, which complications may be reduced through greater patient and public understanding, awareness, and education: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

Approved November 3, 1983.