Offering a lifestyle intervention to women of premenopausal age as primary prevention for cardiovascular disease? - assessing its cost-effectiveness.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is limited evidence of cost-effective primary prevention interventions for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in young women. This study aimed to assess the value for money of primary prevention of CVD in this population.

Methods

A Markov microsimulation model consisting of both first-ever and recurrent CVD events was developed to simulate the lifetime intervention impact on cost and health outcomes in women of premenopausal age (30 to 54 years) from the Australian healthcare system perspective. The latest wave of the Australian National Health Survey defined the modelled population's characteristics. The intervention effectiveness of a lifestyle modification program involving changes in diet and physical activity demonstrated to be effective in this population wa

SUBMITTER: Gao L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9749355 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature