Many chronically ill Americans take less of their medicines than they should or skip them entirely so they can afford to eat, a new study reveals.
Researchers looked at data from nearly 9,700 adults with chronic illness who took part in the U.S. National Health Interview Survey.
About 23 percent of them had trouble affording prescribed medications, nearly 19 percent struggled to put sufficient food on the table and 11 percent had both problems, the study authors said.
Difficulty affording medicine and food was most common among Hispanics and blacks, people with numerous chronic health problems and those without insurance, according to the study published in the current issue of The American Journal of Medicine.
Ā
Ā
Comments (0)