In a diabetes simulation, once-weekly exenatide increased projected lifetime costs compared with insulin glargine.
In plain wordsA computer model projected higher lifetime costs with once-weekly exenatide than insulin glargine.
- Peptide
- Exenatide (exendin-4)
- Outcome
- IncreaseLifetime medical cost
- Study
n: not reported in source
CORE Diabetes Model- Comparator
- insulin glargine
- Outcome group
- Healthcare costs and utilization · Whole body
Measurements
- Incremental cost
- 3914 USD
- exenatide versus insulin glargine
Source sentences
Over a lifetime horizon, and compared with IG, EQW was associated with an incremental cost of $3914 (SD = 2923).
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
A validated computer simulation model, the CORE Diabetes Model, was used to project lifetime clinical outcomes and direct medical costs.
In this study, Exenatide (exendin-4) was a lab tool or a carrier, part of a mix, or the subject of a lab method. This result is not evidence about taking Exenatide (exendin-4).