Healthcare Costs

Study shows digestive, liver woes cost nation $85.5 billion annually

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, June 24th, 2002

Taken together, digestive diseases directly cost the United States an estimated $85.5 billion a year, according to a new study written by a University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill School of Medicine faculty member and colleagues.

The study, published in the May 2002 issue of Gastroenterology, showed the most prevalent diseases were nonfood-borne gastroenteritis with, 135 million cases a year, food-borne illnesses with 76 million cases, gastroesophageal reflux disease with 19 million cases and irritable bowel syndrome with 15 million cases.

Commissioned by the American Gastroenterological Association of Bethesda, Maryland, the study...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2002-06-24)

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