Preventive Measures - A Prescription That Almost Cost You Nothing
Saturday, March 8th, 2008Your effort to avoid bad cholesterol, cut salt intake in your diet and curb smoking could prevent millions of deaths each year because of heart disease and hypertension, the international researchers had noted. Such simple measures would cost you almost nil but they can save billions of dollars in lost productivity and health costs, according to a special report in the Lancet Medical Journal. They look at prevention efforts in twenty three low and middle income countries like China, India, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, Mexico, Pakistan, South Africa, Poland and Nigeria in which eighty percent of worldwide deaths from chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer and diabetes occur.
