Projection of Diabetes Population Size and Associated Economic Burden through 2030 in Iran: Evidence from Micro-Simulation Markov Model and Bayesian Meta-Analysis.

<h4>Background</h4>The aim of this study was to estimate the economic burden of diabetes mellitus (DM) in Iran from 2009 to 2030.<h4>Methods</h4>A Markov micro-simulation (MM) model was developed to predict the DM population size and associated economic burden. Age- and sex-s...

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Main Authors: Mehdi Javanbakht, Atefeh Mashayekhi, Hamid R Baradaran, AliAkbar Haghdoost, Ashkan Afshin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132505