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The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Metabolic Syndrome in Korea

OBJECTIVES: Metabolic syndrome is an important etiologic factor in the development of certain types of cancers. The economic cost of the treatment of cancer has been steadily increasing. We therefore estimated the economic burden of cancers attributable to metabolic syndrome in Korea. METHODS: We re...

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Autores principales: Kim, Dongwoo, Yoon, Seok-Jun, Gong, Young-Hoon, Kim, Young Ae, Seo, Hye-Young, Yoon, Jihyun, Kim, A-Rim
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4542298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26265663
http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.15.022
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author Kim, Dongwoo
Yoon, Seok-Jun
Gong, Young-Hoon
Kim, Young Ae
Seo, Hye-Young
Yoon, Jihyun
Kim, A-Rim
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Yoon, Seok-Jun
Gong, Young-Hoon
Kim, Young Ae
Seo, Hye-Young
Yoon, Jihyun
Kim, A-Rim
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description OBJECTIVES: Metabolic syndrome is an important etiologic factor in the development of certain types of cancers. The economic cost of the treatment of cancer has been steadily increasing. We therefore estimated the economic burden of cancers attributable to metabolic syndrome in Korea. METHODS: We reviewed metabolic syndrome-related cancers and relative risk and then calculated population attributable fractions. We analyzed insurance claims data for metabolic syndrome-related cancers in 2012 in order to estimate the direct costs associated with these cancers, including hospitalization, outpatient visits, transportation costs, and caregivers’ costs as well as indirect costs such as loss of productivity due to cancer treatment and premature death. RESULTS: In 2012, 18 070 patients in Korea had cancers attributable to metabolic syndrome. The economic burden was USD 199.8 million and the direct and indirect costs were USD 124.5 million and USD 75.3 million, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: We estimated the economic burden of cancers attributable to metabolic syndrome in Korea and the efforts are necessary to reduce this burden.
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spelling pubmed-45422982015-08-24 The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Metabolic Syndrome in Korea Kim, Dongwoo Yoon, Seok-Jun Gong, Young-Hoon Kim, Young Ae Seo, Hye-Young Yoon, Jihyun Kim, A-Rim J Prev Med Public Health Original Article OBJECTIVES: Metabolic syndrome is an important etiologic factor in the development of certain types of cancers. The economic cost of the treatment of cancer has been steadily increasing. We therefore estimated the economic burden of cancers attributable to metabolic syndrome in Korea. METHODS: We reviewed metabolic syndrome-related cancers and relative risk and then calculated population attributable fractions. We analyzed insurance claims data for metabolic syndrome-related cancers in 2012 in order to estimate the direct costs associated with these cancers, including hospitalization, outpatient visits, transportation costs, and caregivers’ costs as well as indirect costs such as loss of productivity due to cancer treatment and premature death. RESULTS: In 2012, 18 070 patients in Korea had cancers attributable to metabolic syndrome. The economic burden was USD 199.8 million and the direct and indirect costs were USD 124.5 million and USD 75.3 million, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: We estimated the economic burden of cancers attributable to metabolic syndrome in Korea and the efforts are necessary to reduce this burden. Korean Society for Preventive Medicine 2015-07 2015-07-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4542298/ /pubmed/26265663 http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.15.022 Text en Copyright © 2015 The Korean Society for Preventive Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kim, Dongwoo
Yoon, Seok-Jun
Gong, Young-Hoon
Kim, Young Ae
Seo, Hye-Young
Yoon, Jihyun
Kim, A-Rim
The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Metabolic Syndrome in Korea
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title_fullStr The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Metabolic Syndrome in Korea
title_full_unstemmed The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Metabolic Syndrome in Korea
title_short The Economic Burden of Cancers Attributable to Metabolic Syndrome in Korea
title_sort economic burden of cancers attributable to metabolic syndrome in korea
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4542298/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26265663
http://dx.doi.org/10.3961/jpmph.15.022
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