Real cost of heart attacks and strokes: Double the direct medical expense

(European Society of Cardiology) The full financial cost of a heart attack or stroke is twice as much as the medical costs when lost work time for patients and caregivers is included. That's the finding of research published today, World Health Day, in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology. The study concludes that victims of heart attack and stroke who return to work are 25% less productive in their first year back.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news