Cost-effectiveness analysis of low bone mass prevention in Chinese older men with excessive alcohol consumption: a modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

China has a high disease burden of low bone mass, and elderly men with excessive alcohol consumption may be underdiagnosed and undertreated given the adverse effects on skeletal health. This study implemented an economic evaluation to assess the screening plus receiving anti-osteoporotic medication for low bone mass prevention in older men with excessive alcohol intake.

Design and setting

A patient-level Markov model.

Participants

Chinese men aged over 60 years with excessive alcohol consumption.

Interventions

Receiving screening plus medication considered with two eligibility strategies for therapy: osteoporosis and osteopenia.

Outcomes

The quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs), lifetime cost and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) w

SUBMITTER: Lin X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12853525 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature