Tuesday 31 January 2012

Top Ten Most Expensive Treatment-Disease Costs

1.Mental illness 
$ 142.2 billion
Mental illness ( $ 142,2 billion)Mental illness is a behavioral or psychological pattern associated with distress that occurs in an individual and is not a part of normal development or culture, such as the Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Schizophrenia, depression and others. The development of recent drug and the long healing process that makes this disease a disease with the most expensive among all the medical expenses of existing disease. The Increased of mental illness cost is about 6% per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached $ 142.2 billion.

2. Heart disease
$ 123.1 billion
Heart disease is still be the number one killer disease in the world. This is due to more and more people who smoke and increasing unhealthy lifestyle such as high cholesterol foods and infrequent exercise. The increased cost of this disease is about 5% per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached $ 123.1 billion.

3. Trauma
$ 100,2 billion
Trauma is a type of damage to the psyche that occurs as result of a traumatic event. It can caused by a wide variety of event, such as sexual abuse, violence, etc. Cost of treatment of people affected by trauma continue to rise as each case varies cure. Besides the tools to diagnose this disease such as Computed tomography scans quite expensive. The increased costs of this disease is about 6% per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached $ 100.2 billion.


4. Cancer
$ 99,4 billio
Cancer with the most expensive costs of treatment are colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer and prostate cancer. The key to avoiding this disease is by avoiding smoking and maintaining a healthy intake of food. The increased cost of this disease is about 7% per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached $ 99.4 billion.

5. Lung disease
$ 64,6 billion
People with lung disease have difficulty breathing, which include lung diseases such as asthma, emphysema (swelling or inflammation of the lungs) and Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic disease (COPD) others. The increased costs of this disease is about 6% per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 64.6 billion.

6. Hypertension – high blood pressure
$ 50.2 billion
This disease requires a lot of cost because there are also many doctors who are giving the drug in quantities unsparing in his patients. The qualities of drug also determines the price. If it made its generic hypertension drug may cost the disease can be suppressed. The increased cost of this disease is about 9% per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached $ 50.2 billion.

7. Osteoarthritis (arthritis / rheumatism)
$ 48 billion
The Obesity and an enlarged waist size is a factor which increases the risk of this disease. Expensive drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex that emerged in early 2000 adding expensive to cure this disease arthritis. In 2004, Vioxx, withdrawn from the market because the risk of triggering a heart attack. The increased cost of this disease is about 8% per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached $ 48 billion.

8. Backache
$ 40.1 billion
The expenditures for this disease for many spent the operation. There are also drugs that are expensive narcotic (anesthetized) to overcome this disease. But a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said that all the expensive treatment that does not make someone better. The increased cost of this disease is about 9% per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached $ 40.1 billion.

9. Kidney disease 
$ 35.9 billion
The discovery of dialysis techniques for patients with kidney disease makes treatment of this disease is expensive. Dialysis technique was the first a very expensive technology in dealing with kidney disease. The increased cost of this disease is about 13% per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached $ 35.9 billion.

10. Diabetes
$ 35.8 billion
There are almost 24 million Americans affected by diabetes and obesity trigger is highest. Diabetes could trigger other diseases such as heart disease and cancer. However, due to diseases that have differed more treatment, the diabetes itself does not eat the higher costs of heart disease or cancer. The increased cost of this disease is about 8% per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in America has reached U.S. $ 35.8 trillion.





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