National/Regional
Heart care
costs rise
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SARASOTA. Fla. (AP)
—Treatment of heart and cir
culatory disease, by far the
country's main cause of death,
will cost an estimated $78.ti
billion this year, the American
Heart Association said Sunday.
"That's a real figure, and it's
going up." said Dr. Thomas
Ryan, president of the
association.
The estimate equals about.
$325,for every man, woman and
child in the United" States. ’ '
The costs include .$48,2
t billion for hospital and nursing' ,
home services. $13 6 billion.’for „
° lost work time due to disability. '
$11 "8 billion for doctor biils and’
$5 billionTor medicines,” •-* ’•
bast year.-' the .association"
• estimated these diseases, which ;■
<5 inclu.de 0»h’ea|1 attacks., high"
blood pressure and strokes. ckisf
$^2". 1° bill ion t * \-.y '
V Ryan-said some of the costs '. '
.might he reduced if.physicians
.Would be. more -discriminating
in-the' ways, they' use. medical.'
. technology.-" V. ‘
• ’ • For example,..even thupgh. a ;
patient .technically may’.be, a
°. candidate, for . bl6od''.'.yesselv:
.-'surgery.,4 he said, physicians
.should learn Jtd ask'whother-it's
. ' wise.'to' put hipv thruug'h -'the.-'’
" procedure. • ... ' . . ;
-. ' Sometimes, the. same* respite r
.. .ran be achieved through tiring- v
.therapy,', researchers- have
. ' found: . ■ . f'
• • The cost /jgures were in (he s"
ahijual. 'brochyre^ -'Heart - '
-Facts." released-at a • Science:
Writers forum sponsored by the
assoc; intic/if,! . '• :• r
. '.Cardiovascular diseases. ikHl"’
twfce as many people bach year -
. 'as'.cancer and ttiLillies.as .many ”
as accidents: . '. •
. In .' 1983. .the last i year , for.
which accurate figures' are ' i
available: 989,401)1 '-American.?-'~
' died .from heart and circulatory' -
diseases' . '... * 7 >■
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Student goals change
I.OS ANGELES (AP) — Fewer college freshmen plan
careen In computers or engineering than a year ago. and the
number who consider it very important to make a lot of
money decreased for the first time in 15 vears. a new study
says.
And while business remained the most popular major,
students are slowly returning to careers in education as a na
tionwide baby boomlet creates a teacher shortage a tur
nabout from a decade earlier, when there went more teachers
than jobs and few people were entering the field, -the study
found. '• ' • ,
, The study also said that while the majority of freshmen
still consider themselves middle-of-the-road politically., they
’■ heye. dad it ionafly- littoral views on such issue's as. disarms-'
ment. military spending, .taxes. pollution and abortion.
The tiff-page rpportjbeing released Monday wan cbmpilA
• the Cooperative lnstit\itional'Research°Pmgram. It-was
■■ sponsored by- the American4 Council on Education and" the ,
o. University of '(California at °L6s Angeles graduate school ‘of '
. education. s . s ‘.
’ ° ' TKeistudy was based oft surveys 6f'l92(453studenfs..br'a \
... Iban 1 percent of thejfall' 1 $85 freshman class pV
J:bti°millii>nat\W5 cqjleges and universities.’/ .. \
• • the most surprising dfScoyerie‘s.WHs the.drop in' .
’ intyn>.it in compiuter and iingineering fieids.' .
y • ’/his 'decl.ining interest °ip tet;h'nological earners "stands ’"
• ,‘in.stark’contrast.to the growing nationabconceYn fopihereas--"
• ejUtechnological: training and ItKhnblbgicqt iiipacitv in the .
;• Ainbri< inf wprkfpnfec \ thi^ripdii said" y v
' y ifily:4,4;i>ttri:erd'pfyhe fmshnuuidmlftiitfHUhey intend Uk »
turstli* nUrtH>r< /VintlHlI#«*«•’ rtivi'aram*..L •
; v mutmsi in iruf ntaiogicahana*physica^scwm:es •
* ' fyhjfe-tin; humanities gainer!... Business \
■' tretnajniid'ith^ii^UiMypular major wilh'^.'ipercept, up froth *
\24 percent a yemrumrlier and.2i:.Tf)en:eht'ih f98()/; • ■
' ' C . .'Tf*efsurvey.'.foiin/l. fid!; percent planned on teaching ' .
'* cantfirs.^ conijtafdd /tui-.Vi. percent’.! n 1 ($4 apd -an all:iiinti:ldw •
y..ori:? pfli'fftit hi I ffft'2Th'e highest•beVel’was 2:f-5 peTt'ent in
* • V . ' i- ... c > *
. “ • The_ number of students 'indicating' It was essential or. -
V w'important )o*be fine(icfally.welj Off xlmdined slfgHtly id •
Jm YodrjH'rf ’ent reversing /\1yettrs of.'ihccirash$;:\ Pp
‘ ■ o' “**• percehiagd was 712 percent. "Bui theiriedr’l'
}. . °ratesfill rimtaihfHl j.ii .ihuve thprecohl 1970 hiwofabpai#0 ■
■ y.pertidu V. • •! y.,.*
....... • . J!he study also, slwwetl that. 2h..6 percent favor ■ more
.... deft2nm-sfMmdihg:'cpmiMp*ii tpl2 5peitentin j>984 andjIH.H ■
■. [Hfrcent\ in AtiHj.. Two-lhifris of the freshhwn believe, the
ji4>vemtnent sfwulddp pipre tit pry)mole disarmament.
PORTI.ANI). (AP) -Mfeath.s
, from dnig. overdoses' it) Oregon
y more than doubled-irr 1-0H.'oth«y.
;*• 'Multnomah. County mdd.lcal'exT. "■
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.Them wlifB i57„edl‘ug»ovpr/insl! “
. 'depths Wst y t*er, up from 2.'t. jh
JW84\ according to staludics
compiled- from throughout the
state by Dr Terry j.cvyman‘sV
office; •
Of the • 57 : deaths. 47 were
from heroin overdoses arid -the
rest ’irtvjo.lved overdoses;'inhere "
- cocaine and .heroin .Were mixed
in significant amounts .
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