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Title: Economic impact of Lyme disease.
Author: Xinzhi Zhang
Publication: Emerging Infectious Diseases
(Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 12 Issue: 4 Page:
653(8)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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To assess the economic impact of Lyme disease (LD), the most common
vectorborne inflammatory disease in the United States, cost data were
collected in 5 counties of the Maryland Eastern Shore from 1997 to 2000.
Patients were divided into 5 diagnosis groups, clinically defined
early-stage LD, clinically defined late-stage LD, suspected LD, tick bite,
and other related complaints. From 1997 to 2000, the mean per patient direct
medical cost of early-stage LD decreased from $1,609 to $464 (p<0.05),
and the mean per patient direct medical cost of late-stage LD decreased from
$4,240 to $1,380 (p<0.05). The expected median of all costs (direct
medical cost, indirect medical cost, nonmedical cost, and productivity
loss), aggregated...
NOTE: Education and information can help patients and their doctors, especially since we are in the infancy of tick borne diseases and dealing with an ongoing controversy about Lyme and associated diseases. We need to see books tracking individual cases of chronic Lyme disease, books on emerging tick borne diseases, books on Lyme Induced Autism, and books on misdiagnosis of Lyme as ALS, MS, fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and so on.