Projected total cost of chronic disease from 2016-2030 in Mississippi is $405 billion. In 2015, 1.9 million people in Mississippi had at least 1 chronic disease, 788 thousand had 2 or more chronic diseases. Chronic disease could cost Mississippi $19.3 billion in medical costs and an extra $7.7 billion annually in lost employee productivity (average per year 2016-2030). 

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