Lifetime risk, life expectancy, loss-of-life expectancy, and lifetime healthcare expenditures for psoriasis in Taiwan: a nationwide cohort followed from 2000 to 2017.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with psoriasis have a significant disease burden throughout the life course. Nevertheless, the lifetime risk and disease burden of psoriasis across the entire lifespan is rarely quantified in an easily understandable way.

Objective

To estimate the cumulative incidence rate, life expectancy, loss-of-life expectancy, and lifetime healthcare expenditures for incident psoriasis.

Design and methods

Using real-world nationwide data from the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan for 2000-2017, along with the life tables of vital statistics, we estimated cumulative incidence rate, life expectancy, loss-of-life expectancy, and lifetime healthcare expenditures for those with psoriasis using a semi-parametric survival extrapolation method.

SUBMITTER: Chiu HY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10155019 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature