Tuesday, September 7, 2010

10 Diseases with the HIGHEST costs


Medical expenses each year almost all diseases is increasing. But among all types of diseases for which cost was very expensive. 10 Avoid this sickness if do not want falling into poverty.

1. Mental illness
Increased costs per year 6 per cent. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 142.2 billion
. Mental illness among the Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Schizoprenia, depression and others. Recent drug development and the long healing process that makes this disease a disease with the most expensive among all the medical expenses of existing disease.

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

3. Trauma
Increased costs per year 6 per cent. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 100.2 billion. Cost of treatment of people affected by trauma continues to increase because each case varies cure. Besides the tools to diagnose this disease such as Computed tomography scans quite expensive.

4. Cancer
Increased cost of 7 percent per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 99.4 billion. Cancer is the most expensive 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 intake of food.

5. Phthisis
Increased costs per year 6 per cent. Total cost of treatment of 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 Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic disease (COPD) others.

6. Hypertension (high blood pressure)
Increased cost of 9 percent per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 50.2 billion. This disease requires a lot of cost because many doctors are giving the drug in quantities unsparing in his patients.Drug quality also determines the price. If it made its generic hypertension drug may cost the disease can be suppressed.

7. Osteoarthritis (arthritis / rheumatism)
Increased cost of 8 percent per year. Total cost of treatment of 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 to cure this disease arthritis.In 2004, Vioxx, withdrawn from the market because the risk of triggering a heart attack.

8. Backache
Increased cost of 9 percent per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 40.1 billion. 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.

9. Kidney disease
Increased cost of 13 percent per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in the United States has reached U.S. $ 35.9 billion. The discovery of dialysis techniques for kidney patients make costly treatment of this disease. Dialysis technique was first a very expensive technology in dealing with kidney disease.

10. Diabetes
Increased cost of 8 percent per year. Total cost of treatment of this disease in America has reached U.S. $ 35.8 trillion. Nearly 24 million Americans affected by diabetes and obesity trigger is highest. Diabetes could trigger other diseases such as heart disease and cancer. However, because the diseases had been treated differently again, so that diabetes itself does not eat the higher costs of heart disease or cancer.



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