Does productivity Losses Associated with Head and Neck Cancer Using the Human Capital and Friction Cost approach?
The productivity losses associated with head and neck cancer are substantial, and return to work assistance could form an important part of rehabilitation. Use of both the HCA and FCA approaches allowed different drivers of productivity losses to be identified, due to the different assumptions of the two methods. For future estimates of productivity losses, the use of both approaches may be pragmatic.
Arterial hypertension of maintenance hemodialysis patients shows a strong relationship with the percentage of body fat and with FFM/FAT ratio, i.e. with the adiposity of diseased malnourished patients. Moreover, as suggested by the relationship between ECW and BP, present only at the end of dialysis, expansion of the extracellular water compartment or in other words, the degree of adequacy of water filtration during dialysis, seems to be an important condition in determining post-dialysis BP levels in hypertensive patients. The increase in BP during the interdialysis period is not closely interrelated with the degree of body hydration, but there is strong evidence that it is connected with the effects of malnutrition, including the increase in body lipids. This condition is multifactorial and can be a consequence of nutritional behavior, as well as of kidney disease and dialysis itself, with metabolic derangement also associated with protein and I-carnitine deficiency.