Full Text of HR0245 97th General Assembly
HR0245 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common | 3 | | serious heart rhythm disorder and causes 15% of all strokes in | 4 | | the United States; and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Atrial fibrillation affects more than 2.3 million | 6 | | Americans and is expected to more than double to 5.6 million | 7 | | Americans by 2050; and
| 8 | | WHEREAS, One in 4 people aged 40 years or older develop | 9 | | atrial fibrillation during their lifetime; and
| 10 | | WHEREAS, Atrial fibrillation causes the heart to beat | 11 | | irregularly or out of rhythm; as a result, people with AFib are | 12 | | nearly 5 times more likely to have a stroke than someone | 13 | | without the condition; in addition, AFib-related strokes are | 14 | | about twice as likely to be fatal and about twice as likely to | 15 | | be severely disabling than strokes that are not related to | 16 | | AFib; and | 17 | | WHEREAS, Three out of 4 AFib-related strokes can be | 18 | | prevented, but many patients are not aware of their risk and do | 19 | | not take action to prevent stroke; and
| 20 | | WHEREAS, The estimated direct medical cost of stroke for |
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| 1 | | 2007 was $25.2 billion; this includes hospital outpatient or | 2 | | office-based provider visits, hospital inpatient stays, | 3 | | emergency room visits, prescribed medicines, and home health; | 4 | | and
| 5 | | WHEREAS, Appropriate stroke prevention in AFib can | 6 | | effectively reduce the overall financial burden of the illness | 7 | | within public programs, such as Medicaid and Medicare; and | 8 | | WHEREAS, Reducing the risk of stroke related to AFib may | 9 | | maintain self-sufficiency on the part of patients cared for | 10 | | within public programs; therefore, be it
| 11 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 | | NINETY-SEVENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 13 | | we urge the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family | 14 | | Services to pursue the feasibility of assessing chronic disease | 15 | | management of stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation, using | 16 | | State or private resources, or both, where available, with the | 17 | | intent of identifying opportunities to reduce the financial and | 18 | | clinical burden of AFib-related strokes upon Illinois in public | 19 | | programs; and be it further
| 20 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 | | presented to the Director of Healthcare and Family Services.
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