Associations of Alzheimer’s disease with inpatient hospital costs and with quality-adjusted life years: Evidence from conventional and Mendelian randomization analyses in the UK Biobank
Padraig Dixon,
Emma Anderson
Abstract:BACKGROUNDAlzheimer’s disease and other dementias are progressive neurodegenerative disorders with profound impacts on cognitive function. There is a shortage of economic evidence relating to the impact Alzheimer’s disease on healthcare costs and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs).METHODSWe employed two study designs to model the association between Alzheimer’s disease and healthcare costs and QALYs. We first estimated conventional multivariable models of the association between Alzheimer’s disease and these … Show more
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