The increase in health care costs associated with muscle weakness in older people without long-term illnesses in the Czech Republic: results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11240/17:10364907

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S150826" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S150826</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S150826" target="_blank" >10.2147/CIA.S150826</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The increase in health care costs associated with muscle weakness in older people without long-term illnesses in the Czech Republic: results from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Original language description

Muscle weakness and associated diseases are likely to place a considerable economic burden on government healthcare expenditure. Our aim for this study therefore, was to estimate the direct and indirect costs connected with muscle weakness in the Czech Republic. We applied a cost-of-illness approach, using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). 689 participants aged 70 years and over and without any long-term illnesses were included in our study. A generalized linear model with the gamma distribution was carried out and odds ratio (OR) was calculated in order to explore the effect of muscle weakness on direct and indirect costs. For both genders, muscle weakness had a statistically significant impact on direct costs (OR = 2.11), but did not have a statistically significant impact on indirect costs (OR = 1.08) or on total cost (OR = 1.51). Muscle weakness had the greatest statistically significant impact on direct costs in females (OR = 2.75). In conclusion, our study has shown that muscle weakness may lead to increased direct costs and consequently place a burden on healthcare expenditure. Therefore, the results of this study could lead to greater interest in the prevention of muscle weakness amongst older people in the Czech Republic.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Clinical interventions in aging [online]

ISSN

1178-1998

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

prosinec

Country of publishing house

NZ - NEW ZEALAND

Number of pages

5

Pages from-to

2003-2007

UT code for WoS article

000416116400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85038234026