Annual Asthma-Related Expenditures in U.S. Exceed $80 Billion
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by Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Asthma costs the U.S. economy more than $80 billion a year in medical expenditures, missed school and work days, and deaths, according to CDC researchers. The condition is responsible for 8.7 million lost workdays and 5.2 million lost school-days annually, at an estimated cost of around $3 billion, reported Tursynbek Nurmagambetov, PhD, and colleagues from the CDC's National Center for Environmental Health in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
Annual Asthma-Related Expenditures in U.S. Exceed $80 Billion
Annual Asthma-Related Expenditures in U.S…
Annual Asthma-Related Expenditures in U.S. Exceed $80 Billion
by Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Asthma costs the U.S. economy more than $80 billion a year in medical expenditures, missed school and work days, and deaths, according to CDC researchers. The condition is responsible for 8.7 million lost workdays and 5.2 million lost school-days annually, at an estimated cost of around $3 billion, reported Tursynbek Nurmagambetov, PhD, and colleagues from the CDC's National Center for Environmental Health in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.