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Observational Study
. 2018 Apr;14(4):483-491.
doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2017.12.006. Epub 2018 Feb 9.

The cost of Alzheimer's disease in China and re-estimation of costs worldwide

Jianping Jia  1 , Cuibai Wei  2 , Shuoqi Chen  3 , Fangyu Li  3 , Yi Tang  3 , Wei Qin  3 , Lina Zhao  3 , Hongmei Jin  3 , Hui Xu  3 , Fen Wang  3 , Aihong Zhou  3 , Xiumei Zuo  3 , Liyong Wu  3 , Ying Han  3 , Yue Han  3 , Liyuan Huang  3 , Qi Wang  3 , Dan Li  3 , Changbiao Chu  3 , Lu Shi  3 , Min Gong  3 , Yifeng Du  4 , Jiewen Zhang  5 , Junjian Zhang  6 , Chunkui Zhou  7 , Jihui Lv  8 , Yang Lv  9 , Haiqun Xie  10 , Yong Ji  11 , Fang Li  12 , Enyan Yu  13 , Benyan Luo  14 , Yanjiang Wang  15 , Shanshan Yang  16 , Qiumin Qu  17 , Qihao Guo  18 , Furu Liang  19 , Jintao Zhang  20 , Lan Tan  21 , Lu Shen  22 , Kunnan Zhang  23 , Jinbiao Zhang  24 , Dantao Peng  25 , Muni Tang  26 , Peiyuan Lv  27 , Boyan Fang  28 , Lan Chu  29 , Longfei Jia  30 , Serge Gauthier  31
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Observational Study

The cost of Alzheimer's disease in China and re-estimation of costs worldwide

Jianping Jia et al. Alzheimers Dement. 2018 Apr.

Abstract

Introduction: The socioeconomic costs of Alzheimer's disease (AD) in China and its impact on global economic burden remain uncertain.

Methods: We collected data from 3098 patients with AD in 81 representative centers across China and estimated AD costs for individual patient and total patients in China in 2015. Based on this data, we re-estimated the worldwide costs of AD.

Results: The annual socioeconomic cost per patient was US $19,144.36, and total costs were US $167.74 billion in 2015. The annual total costs are predicted to reach US $507.49 billion in 2030 and US $1.89 trillion in 2050. Based on our results, the global estimates of costs for dementia were US $957.56 billion in 2015, and will be US $2.54 trillion in 2030, and US $9.12 trillion in 2050, much more than the predictions by the World Alzheimer Report 2015.

Discussion: China bears a heavy burden of AD costs, which greatly change the estimates of AD cost worldwide.

Keywords: Alzheimer's; Cost of illness; Dementia; Observational study.

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