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From: Health economic consequences of reducing salt intake and replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat in the adult Finnish population: estimates based on the FINRISK and FINDIET studies

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Simplified structure of state transition model. The model included five health states and death, which was modelled as an absorbing terminal state. The ‘healthy’ state includes subjects without a history of myocardial infarction (MI) or stroke, and they have an annual probability of experiencing an initial non-fatal CVD event (MI or stroke), fatal event (non-CVD death or CVD death) or no CVD event.

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