Cost of illness

Cardiovascular diseases cause the highest costs of illness

In the year 2008 costs of illness of about 3,100 euro per capita occurred in Germany for the prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and care of diseases and accidents – altogether this corresponded to an amount of 254.3 billion euro. About half (50.7%) of the entire costs of illness – in the year 2008 this was approximately 129 billion euro – distributed itself on only four disease categories. Thereby, the highest costs resulted from cardiovascular diseases (37 billion euro).

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