Peter Lindgren

..To investigate the cost effectiveness of exemestane compared to megestrol in post-menopausal women after tamoxifen failure...

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..As such, a program is demanding in terms of resources; it is necessary to assess whether it would be money well spent. This determination was the purpose of this study...

..Less than half of patients in Scandinavian societies achieve target cholesterol values established by consensus coronary prevention panels...

..To compare the cost effectiveness of an amlodipine-based strategy and an atenolol-based strategy in the treatment of hypertension in the UK and Sweden...

..These results are helpful in future economic evaluations of primary preventive measures in cardiovascular medicine...

..The purpose of the study was to assess the utility loss and indirect costs following a stroke in Sweden...

..Our goal was to investigate if this translates to a higher risk of cardiovascular events in real clinical practice...

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..Several health economic studies have shown that the use of clopidogrel is cost-effective to prevent ischemic events in non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) and unstable angina...

..Thus the predicted cost-effectiveness ratio of long-term treatment with clopidogrel in patients undergoing PCI is well below the threshold values currently considered cost-effective...

..New therapies entering the field must now compare favourably with statin therapy, whereas earlier a comparison versus placebo would have been sufficient to demonstrate cost effectiveness...

..CONCLUSION: Based on comparisons with the WOSCOPS and 4S studies, atorvastatin at 10 mg to treat patients as in the ASCOT study, appears to be a cost-effective strategy...

..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term cost-effectiveness of clopidogrel on top of standard therapy (including ASA) in patients with acute coronary syndromes without ST-segment elevation in Sweden...

..The aim of this study was to determine the health care costs associated with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes in Sweden...

..The objective of this study was to improve the model by incorporating the effect of a subjective measure of disease severity and activity (global VAS)...

..This analysis adds to existing knowledge by providing further data on the cost-effectiveness of clopidogrel in PCI across a wide spectrum of patients...

..Primary prevention may be a way to lower the risk burden of coronary heart disease, but we must establish that preventive programs are cost-effective...

..The objective of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of FE(NO) measurement at a reimbursement price of euro34 using NIOX MINO, a portable non-invasive FE(NO) monitor, in asthma diagnosis and management...

..In addition, a within-trial cost-effectiveness analysis showed favorable costs per event avoided. However, to estimate the long-term effects, a modeling approach is necessary...

..To estimate costs of admission and costs incurred on an annual basis by patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) in Greece, Italy, Poland, Spain, and the Netherlands...

..To examine medical resource use of Swedish patients with type 2 diabetes during 2000-2004 and to estimate annual costs of care...

..Compared to an earlier cost study in 1998 that included a similar sample, and adjusting for differential timing and estimated national use of DMDs, costs have increased by approximately 5% between 1998 and 2005...

..To estimate diabetes-related resource use and investigate its predictors among individuals with type 2 diabetes in 24 countries in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa...

..The objective was to analyse the factors determining utility in patients with all types of AF, both at baseline and after 1 year from inclusion, based on data from the Euro heart survey...

..To determine the prevalence and incidence of Type 2 diabetes and its complications in Uppsala county, Sweden between 1996 and 2003...

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..After the Chernobyl accident in 1986, as much as 5% of the released caesium-137 was deposited in Sweden due to a heavy rainfall 2 days after the event. A study of increased incidence of malignancies was initiated after the accident...

..3 quality-adjusted life year (QALY) per patient. Relapses for patients with an EDSS score of <5 are associated with a cost of approximately euro 4000 and a utility loss of 0.18 during the quarter in which they occur...

..This is most likely due to a difference in the severity distribution of the two samples and to changes in health-care consumption overall in the country, such as the introduction of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs, Fallpauschalen)...

..The CURE study demonstrated that clopidogrel prevents a range of ischaemic cardiovascular events in patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes (unstable angina or non-ST-segment elevation MI)...

..Two simulation models were developed to analyze the cost-effectiveness of new treatments that affect the progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA)...

..Despite this, a large amount of costs falls on families providing care, in particular for patients with severe disease...

..This loss increases to approximately 0.4 for patients over 60 years of age with an average EDSS score of 6.0-6.5. Patients with a recent relapse had lower utility (-0.1) and higher costs (+ euro 4.750)...

..This paper describes the methodology used for the study, while results are presented in the individual country reports...