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This leaves residents with an annual disposable income of $5,929–the lowest out of all 50 states. Some factors that contribute to Hawaii’s high cost of living are its highhousing costsdue to housing shortages and highincome taxes.
States with the highest burden of CVD in 1990, such as Kentucky, West Virginia, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Oklahoma, are only now achieving the 1990 levels of CVD burden in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey. Mississippi continues to lag as the state with the largest...
In contrast, Louisiana was rated the worst state for health care overall, with the highestheart diseaserate in the nation, the third highest cancer rate, and a low number of dentists per capita. The 10 worst states for health care include: ...
Contemporaneous data on healthcare costs of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in the United States are lacking. We aimed to estimate all-cause and IBS-specific costs in patients with and without IBS and to compare costs across IBS subtypes.#Using Optum's deidentified Clinformatics Data Mart Databa...
The proportion of the population with health insurance was 90% in the US, lower than the other countries (range, 99%-100%), and the US had the highest proportion of private health insurance (55.3%). For some determinants of health such as smoking, the US ranked second lowest of the ...
Eight of the 13 antibiotics had a declining trend prior to generic entry (Table 1) (9 including levofloxacin based on visual inspection), including four of the antibiotics with the highest number of prescriptions (cefuroxime axetil, ciprofloxacin, clarithromycin, and levofloxacin). In two of the ...
Obesity is also responsible for anincreasing part of health care costs in the UnitedStates. Health care costs have grown while manyAmericans are getting fatter. A lack of phys calexercise, watching TV too much and eating junkfood contribute to the rising obesity rate. Thereport says the ...