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7 Most Costly Urological Diseases
Those figures appear in a new report funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
The report comes from researchers including Mark Litwin, MD, MPH, professor of urology and health services at the David Geffen School of Medicine and School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Litwin's team gathered data on the cost of outpatient visits, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations for urologic diseases in 2000. Compiling the 716-page report took five years, states an NIH news release. Here are America's seven most costly urologic diseases, along with their 2000 national medical care tab, according to the report:
"This research sharply illustrates the immense burden of urologic diseases and the importance of studies to preempt disease processes and develop targeted treatments," says NIH Director Elias Zerhouni, MD, in an NIH news release.
The report, titled "Urologic Diseases in America," is posted on the web site of the NIH's National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse.
Sources: Litwin, M. "Urologic Diseases in
America." News release, National Institutes of Health.
www.webmd.com/news/20070502/7-most-costly-urologic-diseases?ecd=wnl_erd_051907
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