Table 6.
Socio-economic costs used in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fracture
| Variable | Year |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
| Gross domestic product (US$, billion) | 1,222.81 | 1,305.61 | 1,411.33 | 1,382.76 | 1,411.04 |
| Health care cost (US$) | 193,210,353.55 | 209,908,733.00 | 225,300,588.77 | 256,449,303.66 | 284,968,877.65 |
| Cement augmentation (US$) | 81,365,101.03 | 86,480,584.49 | 88,239,650.63 | 103,243,812.65 | 117,072,034.92 |
| Conservative treatment (US$) | 111,845,252.52 | 123,428,148.51 | 137,060,938.14 | 153,205,491.01 | 167,896,842.72 |