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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: 5, Interesting) by HiThere on Saturday February 16 2019, @06:15PM (4 children)
There are lots of different ways, and all the simple explanations are wrong. Not just wrong, but so wrong it's foolish to pay them any attention. There have been children under 10 who have died to coronary obstructive disease. The have been centenarians who lived largely on bacon and never exercised if they could avoid it. I, personally, am overweight, sedentary, a computer programmer by trade, in my 70's, eat eggs every day, and I've got *low* cholesterol.
If we weren't progressing so fast in gene therapy I'd say that there was reason (not good reason, but still reason) for the argument that we should let evolution take care of the process. But evolution is *SLOW* on the human time-scale, and *EXTREMELY* slow on the technological scale. So that argument fails totally. People can waffle all they want about adopting genetic techniques to germ line cells, but that's on the human scale. As far as evolution is concerned that change is happening so fast it couldn't be noticed (speaking metaphorically). (And that "so fast" in the first sentence of the paragraph is really my own foolishness. Technical progress that seems too slow to notice on the human scale is still happening too fast to be noticed on the evolutionary scale.)
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @06:42PM
Processing so fast in gene therapy? Good people are such rubes, when will you learn to identify marketing materials meant to sell patents and pump stocks?
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:05PM (1 child)
Blah blah blah ... bacon ... eggs ... waffle ... blah blah blah ok now I'm hungry.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:58PM
If the idea of a waffle makes you crave food you have a carb addiction. That isn't hunger you are feeling.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:07PM
Sounds like a great way to hide stuff in plain sight over a long period of time.