Resumen de Mind the Gap:: Disparity Between Research Funding and Costs of Care for Diabetic Foot Ulcers

David G. Armstrong, Vikram A. Kanda, Lawrence A. Lavery, William Marston, Joseph L. Mills, Andrew J. Boulton

• [...]these 22,531 NIH-funded projects yielded $7,161,363,871 in overall diabetes funding, and of this, only $11,851,468 (0.17%) was specific to DFUs. [...]a 604-fold difference exists between overall diabetes funding and that allocated to DFUs. According to estimates, nearly $9,000,000,000 were spent on DFU treatment in 2001 alone (13).