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Cost-Effectiveness of Screening for Pre-Diabetes Among Overweight and Obese U.S. Adults

Author(s) -

Jaro Wex Wechowski

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc07-2363

Subject(s) - medicine , diabetes mellitus , overweight , impaired glucose tolerance , context (archaeology) , impaired fasting glucose , type 2 diabetes , cost effectiveness , obesity , endocrinology , paleontology , risk analysis (engineering) , biology

I read with great interest the article by Hoerger et al. regarding cost-effectiveness of screening for pre-diabetes in the U.S. setting (1). The results reported by the authors have potentially global implications and should be viewed in the context of similar analyses conducted elsewhere.The cost-effectiveness ratio obtained in the study is in broad agreement with recent findings for the U.K. (2). The U.K. analysis was based on a pre-diabetes screening module linked to a validated diabetes model (3). The value of the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) was determined as £23,717 for patients with both impaired glucose tolerance and impaired fasting glucose treated with intensive …

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