Improving Quality Of Life For Dialysis Patients
Having a healthy kidney is worth a billion dollars; but an unhealthy kidney costs more — about $16 billion more, according to Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD, associate professor in the division of nephrology and hypertension at the University of Cincinnati (UC).”It costs about $17 billion a year to care for patients with end-stage kidney disease,” he said. [click link for full article]
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Filed under: Cardiovascular on September 20th, 2007