1 May 2018 - A new report by the Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions estimates that hundreds of Canadians die every year because they are unable to afford their prescription medication.

The report estimates that a lack of prescription drug coverage contributes annually to:

• 370-640 premature deaths due to ischaemic heart disease
  
• 270-420 premature deaths of working-age Canadians with diabetes
  
• 550-670 premature deaths from all causes among working-age Canadians
  

Because these groups may overlap, the researchers caution that the numbers can’t be added together to come up with a total.

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