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. 2012 Nov 1;4:313–322. doi: 10.2147/CEOR.S35824

Table 3.

QALY decrements and costs for cardiovascular events

Health state QALY decrement Distribution Reference
Heart failure 0.070 Gamma (1.96, 0.04) Alehagen et al17
Cardiac arrhythmia 0.065 Gamma (42, 0.002) Reynolds et al18
Peripheral arterial disease 0.250 Gamma (6, 0.04) Sigvant et al16
Chronic ischemic heart disease 0.090 Gamma (3, 0.03) Clarke et al19
Myocardial infarction 0.055 Gamma (30, 0.002) Clarke et al19
Stroke 0.145 Gamma (3, 0.06) Lindgren et al20
Health state Cost (mean) Distribution Reference

Heart failure Agvall et al21
Year 1 41,769 Gamma (17,2394)
Year 2+ 41,769 NA
Cardiac arrhythmia Davidsson and Levin22
Year 1 4023 Gamma (4994)
Year 2+ 4023 NA
Peripheral arterial disease Sigvant et al16
Year 1 193,660 Gamma (60, 3227)
Year 2+ 57,873 Gamma (68, 847)
Chronic ischemic heart disease Henriksson et al23
Year 1 6824 Gamma (2, 3664)
Year 2+ 6824 NA
Myocardial infarction Sigvant et al16
Year 1 155,194 Gamma (60, 2577)
Year 2+ 41,356 Gamma (68, 605)
Stroke Ghatnekar et al24
Year 1 169,984 Gamma (72, 2353)
Year 2+ 59,684 Gamma (73, 821)

Notes: 2011 Swedish kronor values used (inflated using consumer price index from Statistics Sweden if needed). Original cost estimates may be in other currencies and were converted to Swedish kronor.

Abbreviation: NA, Not available.