{"id":12261,"date":"2025-02-21T11:44:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mr66givry2.onrocket.site\/?p=12261"},"modified":"2026-03-04T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:00:42","slug":"research-feature-myotonic-dystrophy-dm-burden-disease-retrospective-study-healthcare-costs-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/research-feature-myotonic-dystrophy-dm-burden-disease-retrospective-study-healthcare-costs-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Feature: \u00abMyotonic Dystrophy (DM) Burden of Disease: A Retrospective Study of Healthcare Costs and Utilization by Individuals With DM\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"date-of-publication\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/mus.28374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/mus.v71.3.cover.jpg\" width=\"413\" height=\"543\" data-entity-type=\"file\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<h2>Myotonic Dystrophy (DM) Burden of Disease: A Retrospective Study of Healthcare Costs and Utilization by Individuals With DM<\/h2>\n<p>Hot off the presses &#8211; a large study examining healthcare costs and utilization for patients with myotonic dystrophy highlighted high clinical and economic burden, as well as stresses the importance of improving care and lowering the healthcare costs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specifically the study showed that myotonic dystrophy (DM) patients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Were 3.7 times more likely to be hospitalized<\/li>\n<li>Were 2.4 times more likely to visit an emergency department<\/li>\n<li>Had 2 times as many outpatient visits in the first year post-diagnosis<\/li>\n<li>Incur costs 3.9 times higher for health plan paid costs in the first year post-diagnosis<\/li>\n<li>Incur costs 2.6 times higher for patient-paid costs in the first year post-diagnosis<\/li>\n<li>Similar healthcare utilization and costs were found at 2- and 3-years post-diagnosis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Publication:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/mus.28374\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Myotonic Dystrophy (DM) Burden of Disease: A Retrospective Study of Healthcare Costs and Utilization by Individuals With DM<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myotonic Dystrophy (DM) Burden of Disease: A Retrospective Study of Healthcare Costs and Utilization by Individuals With DM Hot off the presses &#8211; a large study examining healthcare costs and utilization for patients with myotonic dystrophy highlighted high clinical and economic burden, as well as stresses the importance of improving care and lowering the healthcare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myotonic.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}