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Valuing a QALY at $175,000, new drugs that would produce a 5-year delay in Alzheimer’s disease onset for all new cases between 2010 and 2050 would yield a benefit of close to $4 trillion per year.
Vernon, John, Robert Goldberg, Yashodhara Dash, and Guruprasaadh Muralimohan. Alzheimer’s Disease and Cost-effectiveness Analyses: Ensuring good value for money?. Working Paper — Pending Publication; 2007. http://www.amcp.org/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=12477