Epidemiology/Health Services/Psychosocial Research

How Cost-Effective Is the Treatment of Dyslipidemia in Patients With Diabetes but Without Cardiovascular Disease?

  1. Steven A. Grover, MD, MPA, FRCPC,
  2. Louis Coupal, MSC,
  3. Hanna Zowall, MSC,
  4. Charles M. Alexander, MD, FACP, FACE,
  5. Thomas W. Weiss, DRPH and
  6. Daniel R.J. Gomes, MSC
  1. From the Centre for the Analysis of Cost-Effective Care and the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology (S.A.G., L.C., H.Z.), the Montreal General Hospital; the Department of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (S.A.G.), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; and Merck & Co. (T.W.W., D.R.J.G., C.M.A.), Whitehouse Station, New Jersey and West Point, Pennsylvania.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Steven A. Grover, MD, MPA, FRCPC, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, The Montreal General Hospital, 1650 Cedar Ave., Montreal, PQ H3G 1A4, Canada. E-mail: mdev{at}musica.mcgill.ca .
Diabetes Care 2001 Jan; 24(1): 45-50. https://doi.org/10.2337/diacare.24.1.45

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    —The cost effectiveness (defined as cost per YOLS) of simvastatin therapy among U.S. diabetic men 40-70 years of age who do not have CVD (▪) compared with nondiabetic men with CVD ([UNK]).

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    —The cost effectiveness (defined as cost per YOLS) of simvastatin therapy among U.S. diabetic women 40-70 years of age who do not have CVD (▪) compared with nondiabetic women with CVD ([UNK]).

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How Cost-Effective Is the Treatment of Dyslipidemia in Patients With Diabetes but Without Cardiovascular Disease?
Steven A. Grover, Louis Coupal, Hanna Zowall, Charles M. Alexander, Thomas W. Weiss, Daniel R.J. Gomes
Diabetes Care Jan 2001, 24 (1) 45-50; DOI: 10.2337/diacare.24.1.45
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