HEALTH NEWS - Are you a smoker? If so, then you must get ready to spend much money for higher healthcare costs if at any time you have to undergo surgery. It also applies to former smokers.
Based on a new study at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota pointed out, the smokers who are having surgery may incur higher health care costs thereafter.
Dr. David Warner , a leader of the new study says "Smoking causes an estimated $17 billion in excess healthcare costs each year just because it is more expensive to take care of these folks in the first year after surgeries,"*
Agree or not about what Warner has to say above, but it's based on a fact of his study results.
Method of research conducted by Warner and team is to examine the records of patients at Mayo Clinic hospitals in 2008 and 2009, which they are a group of adults who underwent inpatient surgery.
The high cost of health care because they are needed more often pay a visit to the emergency room and also more hospitalizations during that year.
"This is another example of how smoking has real costs to our society - costs that we all bear - and yet another reason that both public policy and clinical practice needs to focus on preventing and treating addiction to nicotine," Warner said.*
He added that for every Clinicians should take the opportunity to help their patients after having surgery to stop smoking.
Well, it is a matter that deserves to be made a task and responsibility for health experts to provide awareness of his patients who smoke to immediately stop it. However, whether smokers will matter on the study results, we never know.
All it takes is an awareness of the dangers of smoking.
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*quoted from Reuters
source: JAMA Network
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