Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] predicting the future

[Jennifer Dozar <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Depending on specifics, usually the disease weakens the body, allowing
for other infections to transpire. Like with Lung cancer patients and
Aids patients are more likely to Die from getting pneumonia because
their systems have just weakened so much, they can't fight it off.  My
Aunt died of pneumonia, and she had a very advanced stage of Lung Cancer
they found very late. As in, when she went into the hospital with the
pneumonia, they found the cancer.  Like with cancer, the cells tend to
spread, it can start orginally in your lung or your skin, but the
infection of that type of cell, moves all around the body. So pretty
much, cancer can eat you alive. But you can say a similar thing about
diabetes, at least the eating alive part.  Diabetes has soo many more
complications.  I'm still confused about some of the processes and how
come certain complications arise. But i'm not an advanced researcher. I
only have a basic understanding of the disease and the complications it
brings. 

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:25:12PM -0500, Hargus, Diana wrote:
> 
> Kind of like the cash cow that diabetes has become?  
> 
> "Diabetes costs $90 billion annually in direct medical costs. Diabetes costs $40 billion annually in indirect costs (loss of work, disability, loss of life)." -- 
> http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/patientcare/healthinformation/diseasesandconditions/diabetes/statistics/
> 
> That is $90 billion; granted, not enough to fight a war, but still not petty cash either.  And with 298,444,215 people in the united states (07/2006 est), it is rather cheap per person at $301.56 per year, but that is every year.
> 
> By the way, why is it that everyone dies from complications of this disease or that disease, never from the disease itself?
> 
> Diana 
>  
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