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Elevated Comorbidities with PD- Cost and Resource Use -- In the medicare population we found that PD patients suffer from a greater incidence of a number of other conditions than non PD patients. These co-morbidities may be a direct result of PD or a complication from PD. The conditions and the percent of PD patients with those conditions are listed The chart shows the ratio of the proportion of PD to NonPD with each condition in order of the most prevalent co morbidity among PD patients PD % NoPD% Ratio PD/noPD Arthritis 77% 77.2 58 1.33 Heart Disease - 52% 51.6 38.1 1.35 Broken Bones - 36% 35.6 19.5 1.83 Cancer - 33% 32.9 28.6 1.15 Dementia - 31% 31.4 8.1 3.88 Diabetes - 30% 29.7 21.5 1.37 Stroke - 26% 26.2 13.7 1.91 Broken Hip - 16% 15.7 5.8 2.7

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