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Table 3 Main Input Parameters of CEA Model

From: Economic evaluation of a national vitamin D supplementation program among Iranian adolescents for the prevention of adulthood type 2 diabetes mellitus

Statistic variable

Base case

SD/(CI)

Distribution

Source

Costs($)

 Cost of vitamin D therapy

0.61 USD

±0.12 USD

Gamma

*

 Cost of diabetes

710 USD

±70 USD

GAMMA

[29]

Utilities

 Non-diabetes individual

0.76

 

Beta

[17, 24]

 Individual with diabetes disease

0.59

±0.15

Beta

[22, 23]

  1. * the Nutrition Improvement Office of the Ministry of Health