Health and economic effects on patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in the long run: predictions for the Chilean population.

Background: Diabetes is associated to a high financial and disease burden, explaining a large proportion of expenditure of the health system in one year. The purpose of this study was to estimate long-term costs and health outcomes of recently diagnosed patients with type 2 diabetes in Chile.

Methods: Cost and consequence study based on mathematical discrete event simulation (DES) model.

[Inappropriate medication use among Chilean older people].

Background: Inappropriate medication use in older people is an important source of adverse events and complications.

Aim: To determine the frequency of inappropriate medication use in the general population.

Material And Methods: As part of the 2010 Chilean National Health Survey, 1,048 persons aged 65 years or more were interviewed about medication use.

Study protocol for the Maule Cohort (MAUCO) of chronic diseases, Chile 2014-2024.

Background: Maule Cohort (MAUCO), a Chilean cohort study, seeks to analyze the natural history of chronic diseases in the agricultural county of Molina (40,000 inhabitants) in the Maule Region, Chile. Molina´s population is of particular interest because in the last few decades it changed from being undernourished to suffering excess caloric intake, and it currently has the highest national rates of cardiovascular diseases, stomach cancer and gallbladder cancer. Between 2009 and 2011 Molina´s poverty rate dropped from 24.