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ND HCR3030
Concurrent Resolution
Status
2/18/2021
Primary Sponsor
Marvin Nelson
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AI Summary
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Directs the Legislative Management to study metabolic syndrome, including its associated costs, trends, causes, and proposals for reducing prevalence through public policy and initiatives
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Notes that metabolic syndrome is a multifactorial disease arising from insulin resistance that causes morbidity and mortality, including increased risk for coronary heart disease, diabetes, fatty liver, and several cancers
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Identifies that risk factors for metabolic syndrome (obesity, high blood pressure, elevated blood lipids) increase health care costs by 1.6-fold or approximately $2,000 per year, with costs rising an average of 24 percent for each additional risk factor
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States that 37 percent of people in the United States have metabolic syndrome
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Requires the Legislative Management to report findings, recommendations, and any necessary implementing legislation to the Sixty-eighth Legislative Assembly
Legislative Description
A concurrent resolution directing the Legislative Management to consider studying metabolic syndrome and its associated costs, trends, and causes, including proposals for reducing the prevalence and the associated costs through public policy and initiatives.
Last Action
Second reading, failed to adopt yeas 9 nays 38
4/6/2021