Affiliation:
1. Augusta Hypertension, PC, GA 30901.
Abstract
This article discusses escalating health care costs in terms of their principal component, cardiovascular diseases. The role of cigarette smoking is highlighted throughout. A Smoker's Accountability Trust is proposed for the prevention of nonfatal myocardial infarction. It is demonstrated that this approach can contain costs by controlling the root causes of their acceleration.
Publisher
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Subject
Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
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