Estimating healthcare resource utilisation and cardiovascular events in people with high body mass index and established cardiovascular disease
Authors' conclusion
Owing to a high disease and treatment burden, people with a history of CVD living with high BMI incur substantial healthcare costs and are at risk of mortality.
Study context
- Population
- Individuals aged ≥45 years with body mass index (BMI) ≥ 27 kg/m², without T1D or T2D, with established cardiovascular disease (CVD) (previous MI, stroke or peripheral artery disease); UK Discover data, 2004–20192,019 cohort
- Participants
- 27,313 individuals
- Outcome
- Annual per-person healthcare costs
- Follow-up
- 2019
Methodological detailsopen cohort, serial annual cross sections, Markov model
- Open cohort
- Serial annual cross sections
- Markov model
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Annual per-person healthcare costs
£3364
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Cardiovascular (CV) events and mortality incidence · 2015-2019
- MACE incidence
- 2812 per 100,000 person-years
- All-cause mortality incidence
- 2896 per 100,000 person-years
- CV mortality incidence
- 774 per 100,000 person-years
Projected healthcare costs · 2022-2031
- Projected estimated healthcare costs
- £40.8 million
- Healthcare resource utilisation (HCRU) trajectory drivers: history of CV events, older age, multimorbidity
Original publication
Estimating healthcare resource utilisation and cardiovascular events in people with high body mass index and established cardiovascular disease. Diabetes Obes Metab. Published 26 February 2025. doi:10.
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