Each of the year the cost of treatment almost all diseases is increasing. But among all types of diseases for which cost was very expensive. Avoid these 10 diseases if you do not want to fall into poverty. . As quoted by Forbes, Wednesday (16/12/2009), there are 10 diseases with the highest costs in the United States. .
1. Mental Illness
Increased costs per year 6 per cent. The total cost of handling this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 142.2 billion. Mental illness among which Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Schizoprenia, depression and others. Recent drug development and a long healing process makes this disease a disease with expensive medical costs among all the diseases that exist.
2. Heart disease
Increased costs per year and 5 percent. The total of cost handling this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 123.1 billion. Heart disease remains the number 1 killer disease in the world. This is due to more and more people who smoke and increasing unhealthy lifestyle such as high-cholesterol diet and lack of exercise.
3. Trauma
Increased costs per year 6 per cent. The total cost of handling this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 100.2 billion. The medical costs of people affected by trauma continues to increase because each case is different ways of treatment. In addition, the tools to diagnose this disease such as Computed tomography scans quite expensive.
4. Cancer
Increased cost-per-year 7 per cent. The total cost of handling this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 99.4 billion. Cancer is the most expensive with the cost of treatment of colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer and prostate cancer. The key to avoiding this disease is by avoiding smoking and maintaining a healthy food intake.
5. Lung diseases
Increased costs per year 6 per cent. The total cost of handling this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 64.6 billion. Which include lung diseases including asthma, emphysema (swelling or inflammation of the lungs) and disease Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) others.
6. Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Increased costs per year and 9 percent. The total cost of handling this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 50.2 billion. This disease requires significant costs because many doctors are giving the drug in quantities unsparing in his patients. The quality of the drug also determines the price. If it made its generic hypertension drug may cost the disease can be suppressed.
7. Osteoarthritis (arthritis / rheumatism)
Increased cost per year of 8 percent. The total cost of handling this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 48 billion. Obesity and an enlarged waist size is a factor that increases the risk of this disease. Expensive drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex that emerged in early 2000 adding expensive fees arthritis cure this. In 2004, Vioxx withdrawn from the market because the risk of triggering a heart attack.
8. Backache
Increased costs per year and 9 percent. The total cost of handling this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 40.1 billion. Expenditures for this disease much was spent for operations. There are also drugs that are expensive Narcotic (drugged) to overcome this disease. But a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that all the expensive treatment that does not make someone better.
9. Kidney disease
Increased cost of 13 percent per year. The total cost of handling this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 35.9 billion. The discovery of dialysis techniques for patients with kidney disease makes the treatment is expensive. Dialysis technique is the first technology that is very expensive in dealing with kidney disease.
10. Diabetes
Increased cost per year of 8 percent. The total cost of handling this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 35.8 trillion. Nearly 24 million Americans affected by diabetes and obesity triggers are highest. Diabetes can lead to other diseases such as heart disease and cancer. However, because the diseases had been treated differently again, the diabetes itself does not eat the higher costs of heart disease or cancer.
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