Estimating Lifetime Duration of Diabetes by Age and Gender in the Korean Population Using a Markov Model.

Conclusion: This study estimated the duration of diabetes using a Markov model. The model seems to work well and diabetes could reduce life expectancy by about 2 years on average. This approach could be useful to estimate the duration of illness, calculate disability-adjusted life years, and conduct economic evaluation studies on interventions for diabetic patients. PMID: 30923487 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Korean Medical Science - Category: Biomedical Science Tags: J Korean Med Sci Source Type: research