Societal costs of diabetes mellitus in Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To provide comprehensive real-world evidence on societal diabetes-attributable costs in Denmark.

Methods

National register data are linked on an individual level through unique central personal registration numbers in Denmark. All patients in the Danish National Diabetes Register in 2011 (N = 318 729) were included in this study. Complication status was defined according to data from the Danish National Hospital Register. Diabetes-attributable costs were calculated as the difference between costs of patients with diabetes and the expected costs given the annual resource consumption of the diabetes-free population.

Results

Societal costs attributable to diabetes were estimated to be at least 4.27 billion EUR in 2011, corresponding to 14,349 EUR per patient-year. A

SUBMITTER: Sortso C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5061106 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature