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MRS-based health checks for cardiometabolic risk in Finland’s 50–54-year-old working-age population reduce healthcare workload, saving 193,140 nurse hours and 2,843 physician hours over five years.
- Why it matters: Finland’s current health-check approach is reactive and may miss opportunities for earlier cardiometabolic prevention, creating pressure on workload and long-term costs.
- What they did: A de novo individual-level microsimulation used synthetic data for 256,372 Finnish individuals aged 50–54 without prior CVD or T2D, comparing three primary/occupational care scenarios using an MRS.
- The result: The strategy is likely cost-saving in all scenarios, with discounted long-term savings of EUR27 million to EUR258 million; QALYs improve in scenarios 1–2 (1,316 to 10,813) but not in scenario 3.
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