An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of ... - Milken Institute

An Unhealthy AmericaMilken InstituteAs the preceding table shows, cancer incidence rates tend to progress aggressively as people age. The following tableshows that the prevalence rate for diabetes in 2003 was greatest in the 65–74 age group. Heart disease, hypertension,and stroke also occurred more frequently in the 75-and-over age group.Age-Specific PrevalenceAge-Specific Prevalence - Percent, 2003Percent, 2003Age Expenditures Age Age PRC* Expenditures/PRCAge AgeChronic Disease 25-44 (Billions) 45-49** (Millions) 50-64 65-74 (Thousands) 75 and overPulmonaryCancerConditions* 12.6 14.448.117.910.620.74.517.8Breast Cancer 5.5 1.1 4.8Diabetes 2.3 5.9 11.2 18.1 15.8Colon Cancer 3.9 0.3 11.5HypertensionLung Cancer8.9 19.26.335.10.449.317.154.8Heart Disease Prostate Cancer 4.5 7.8 4.3 14.61.0 27.3 4.1 36.8Stroke Other Cancers 0.5 1.1 28.0 3.07.7 7.1 3.6 11.6* Prevalence Pulmonary of pulmonary Conditions conditions includes those 45.2 with asthma, emphysema, 49.2 and chronic bronchitis. 0.9**Prevalence Diabetes specific to the age cohort 45-49 were constructed 27.1 using the 13.7 given age cohorts of 44-64 2.0 and 50-64.Source: Centers Hypertension for Disease Control and Prevention 32.5 36.8 0.9Heart Disease 64.7 19.2 3.4Stroke 13.6 2.4 5.6Mental Disorders 45.8 30.3 1.5The following two tables Total reflect projections of the 2003 277.0 incidence and 162.2 prevalence rates. No 1.7other variables are at play.We find that aging of PRC: the Population population, Reporting by itself, Condition will lead prostate cancer incidence rates to climb 36 percent over the twodecades: from 152 to 208 per 100,000 people. With respect to prevalence rates, age generates the greatest impacts onheart disease, hypertension, and stroke.[ 71 ]