Age, Weight, and Sex Distribution of Early Alzheimer's Disease

 


   Note: An Official Proposal has not been Submitted to NACC.


   Lead Investigator:    Peter Bach
   Institution      :    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
   E-Mail           :    bachp@mskcc.org
   Proposal ID      :    1737



   Proposal Description:
   Our interest is in studying the age, weight, and sex distribution of early  Alzheimer's disease.    We are interested in examining the age and weight distribution of patients with Alzheimer?s disease in order to better understand what the average annual cost of Aduhelm. Biogen?s widely circulated announcement lists an average annual price of $56,000 for a 74kg patient. We have tried to estimate the cost using the NHANES 2015-2015 dataset which contains weight data by age and gender. While we recognize that the NACC data is not a representative sample, we are interested to know if our current range estimate includes the average cost among patients in your dataset.