The Real Cost of Heart Disease in America
American Heart Association Volunteer Expert, Dr. Karen Joynt Maddox Discusses:
New Report on the Physical and Economic Burden of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)
Concerning Trends, Risk Factors and Prevention Tips
Health care costs projected to almost quadruple from $393 billion to $1490 billion by 2050
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death in the U.S., and it is associated with significant morbidity, reduced quality of life and increased health care costs, accounting for billions of dollars in health care spending.
Annual health care costs are projected to almost quadruple from $393 billion to $1490 billion between 2020 and 2050, with the greatest increases expected to be in young adults and seniors with CVD.
Dr. Karen Joynt Maddox, AHA Volunteer Expert, will share demographic shifts and causes in CVD prevalence. She will also discuss how you can improve your own heart health and how you can get involved in bettering the health of your communities.
Dr. Karen Joynt Maddox, MD, MPH, FAHA, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Washington University Brown School of Social Work and Co-Director at the Center for Advancing Health Services, Policy & Economics Research. She has three main areas of research, all focused on health equity. The first area of work is in quantifying inequities in health care quality and outcomes for historically marginalized populations including individuals living in poverty, individuals from racially or ethnically minoritized groups, individuals with disabilities, people living with frailty, and those in rural areas. The second area of work is in evaluating the impact of federal and state health policies, such as Medicare’s value-based and alternative payment models and state Medicaid expansions, on quality, outcomes, and costs, with a particular focus on their effect on racial, socioeconomic, and geographic inequities. The third area of work regards the ways in which social risk, disability, and frailty are used in risk prediction models for costs, utilization, and clinical events across a range of conditions, and how this might lead to over- or underestimates of risk and therefore inaccurate clinical interventions, quality measurement, and payment.
American Heart Association
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June 2024
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