(Physicians for a National Health Program) A new study shows uninsured American adults with chronic illnesses like diabetes, high cholesterol or hypertension often go undiagnosed and undertreated, leading to an increased risk of costly, disabling and even lethal complications of their disease.
The researchers, based at Harvard Medical School and the affiliated Cambridge Health Alliance, analyzed data on 15,976 US non-elderly adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 1999 and 2006.
chronic illnessesIllness often undiscovered and undertreated among the uninsured:...http://www.eurekalert.org/rss/business.xml Mon, 10/19/2009 - 22:00
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