High BP is burden on Kuwaiti healthcare system
Kuwait, The Gulf Observer: High BP is estimated to have the biggest burden on the Kuwaiti healthcare system compared to other chronic noncommunicable diseases, recent research has found.
Based on the study, which was published in Dec 2022, people with high BP were 75 percent more likely to be admitted to a hospital in Kuwait compared to those who don’t have the disease.
The study was conducted by Abdullah Al-Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering at Kuwait University, and aimed to determine the rates of hospitalizations linked to several noncommunicable diseases in the country.
Hospital admissions are one of the costliest elements of the financial burden on healthcare systems, the paper argued, making them a good indicator of how much of an economic strain a given disease could impose.
