It seems the US government needs to invest more fund for researches into urologic disease processes and for developing targeted treatments to help itself off the immense burden of the diseases expenditure.
Diseases of the bladder, prostate and other urinary tract cost Americans nearly $11 billion a year, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said this in a new report.
According to the Urologic Diseases in America, here are the five most expensive urologic problems in a descending order, which accounts for $9.1 billion–
1. urinary tract infections,
2. kidney stones,
3. prostate cancer
4. bladder cancer and
5. benign prostate enlargement
Researchers at the Urologic Diseases in America are up with their gloves in compiling together some both new and previously published ‘reliable data’. The data reveals numbers of people who are not only affected, but also the related treatment patterns and economic cost.
UDA coeditor Mark S. Litwin, M.D., M.P.H, a urologist at the David Geffen School of Medicine and School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles said,
The data have broad implications for quality of care and access to care and helps to inform discussions about health care and research needs.
So, if you are a researcher in urologic diseases, get ready to be flooded with more researches on any related diseases to help the Americans relief their burdens, of huge expenditure on the disease, off.
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