Willingness to pay per quality-adjusted life year: is one threshold enough for decision-making?
Preference elicitation methods are acceptable and feasible in the socio-cultural context of an Asian environment and the calculation of WTP/QALY ratio produced meaningful answers. The necessity of considering the QALY type or disease-specific QALY in estimating WTP/QALY ratio was highlighted and 1 to 3 times of gross domestic product/capita recommended by World Health Organization could potentially serve as a benchmark for threshold in this Asian context.
Increased serum LCN2 levels are positively correlated with the presence of CAD and MS in a Chinese cohort.