[Article] [Prof. Kyu Sung Lee & Prof. Munjae Lee] Publishing an article in a world-renowned journal | |
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Date | 06 Mar 2020 |
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A research team led by Prof. Kyu Sung Lee and Prof. Munjae Lee published an article in a world-renowned journal, suggesting that “People with lower income have a higher risk of having a chronic disease.”
* (Left) Prof. Kyu Sung Kee , (Right) Prof. Munjae Lee
▷ Original news: http://www.bizwnews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=13148
▷ Research article: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/1/121
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The research suggests that people with low-income and difficulties paying the
medical expense have a higher risk of having a chronic disease. Also, People
who regularly undergo medical checkups and perform exercises have a lower risk
of having a chronic illness. Prof. Kyu Sung Lee (Dept. of Urology), Director of Smart Healthcare Institute of Samsung Medical Center (Seoul), and a research team led by Prof. Munjae Lee (Dept. of Medical Device Management & Research at SAIHST, Sungkyunkwan University) conducted a study. The research used the source data from the 2nd year (2017) of the 7th period of the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and 3795 adults aged above 40 years participated in the survey. The Journal of Clinical Medicine, one of the world-renowned journals, published their research results on 2 January 2020.
According
to the research result, “In participants with higher income, the risk of
developing chronic disease reduced by 0.77 times. With regard to the type of
health insurance, the risk of developing chronic diseases increased by 1.727
times among medical care beneficiaries.” “Meanwhile,
the risk of developing chronic diseases decreased by 0.78 times and 0.86 times
among those who underwent medical checkups and who performed exercises,
respectively. In patients with hypercholesterolemia, the risk increased by 5.44
times.”
The
research team also suggests that healthcare inequality in terms of income
causes a burden on paying the medical expense and leads to a high risk of
developing a chronic disease. And periodic management of the chronic disease
can lower the risk of morbidity.
The
research highlights that “medical care beneficiaries with low income may have
more difficulty in managing chronic diseases.” It also presumes that “chronic
diseases develop due to a combination of factors. Age, socioeconomic factors,
obesity, and hypercholesterolemia are factors that can be controlled to prevent
and manage chronic diseases through comprehensive programs rather than through
individual management.”
The
research also shows that weight management through exercise can prevent chronic
diseases. To ensure the effectiveness of exercise and help medical clinics to
perform periodic monitoring, it is essential to establish a personalized
chronic disease management system by using ICT and wearable medical device.
Also,
those in the lower social class are more likely to require chronic disease
management via primary healthcare institutions in the community, and local
clinic-centered chronic disease management can relieve health-related
inequalities.
In this
study, health management in daily life also requires local clinic-centered
services that provide chronic disease patients with a higher excess. Thus, a
community care project in line with community-based primary healthcare services
can ensure continuous health care for a common goal, such as chronic disease
management. This research was funded by the National Research Foundation of Korea and published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine (IF:5.688, JCR Top 10%)
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