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More than 45% of non-elderly adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) report financial hardship due to the associated medical bills, according to a Yale research team. Worse still, about one in five report being unable to pay those medical bills at all, said the researchers.
This study appears in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
According to the study, which was scaled up from the data sample provided by the 2013-2017 National Health Interview Survey, the non-elderly American adults with ASCVD experiencing medical bill-related financial hardship represents an estimated 3.9 million individuals.
"It is remarkably disheartening to see how many people suffer severe financial adverse effects of having atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease," said Harlan Krumholz, M.D., Yale cardiologist and director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). "We have much work to do to ensure that people are spared the financial toxicity of disease that is imposed by our current healthcare system."
Of the group who indicated financial hardship, more than one in three reported that they have also experienced significant financial distress, cut back on purchasing basic necessities like food, and/or skimped on taking essential but costly medications in response to the burden of their medical bills.
Materials provided by Yale University.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:25PM (5 children)
Working "on the road" for a tech company (providing support at customer sites) and failing to properly select from restaurant menus.
Quad bypass at age 47.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @05:42PM
Bah. You sound like an incel to me. It's called personal responsibility. Didn't your momma teach you to eat your vegetables?
I don't know what GP is complaining about either. Just shop around. You can get open heart surgery for the cost of one of those iPhones you millennials think you need if you just tell them you're paying with cash.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday February 16 2019, @07:30PM (3 children)
And even then nobody's sure what happens, you know, the otherwise 100% healthy active eats right just had a complete workup and stress test and suddenly dies of heart attack. And then you have people who do all the wrong things and live long and well (although very rarely if overweight). We're (humankind) still learning. One day it's too much sugar, another it's calcium pills, another it's fat, then there are good fats and bad fats, then it's food additives, preservatives, "processing". Artificial sweeteners are now linked to stroke (I rarely consume them- can't stand the taste) https://www.consumerreports.org/sugar-sweeteners/artificially-sweetened-drinks-linked-to-stroke/ [consumerreports.org]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @07:38PM (2 children)
Medical research uses NHST, which is pseudoscience. That is why they generate and endless list of conflicting results like that. In science you have people independently replicating each others work and testing predictions of their theories on new data. You won't find this in medical research, only significant p-value's and peer review.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:19PM (1 child)
More on NHST and p values -- here's a lecture that demonstrates how much more useful it is to use confidence intervals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ4kqk3V8jQ [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:55PM
People still use confidence interval to do NHST, that isn't an alternative by itself. You can also do NHST with bayes factors...