The incidence of inguinal hernia and associated risk factors of incarceration in pediatric inguinal hernia: a nation-wide longitudinal population-based study

Purpose This study uses a national database to evaluate the incidence of inguinal hernia and associated risk factors of incarcerated hernia in children from birth to 15 years of age. Methods The study selected children born from 1997 to 2005 from a randomly selected cohort of 1,000,000 from an insur...

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Published in:Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery 2016-08, Vol.20 (4), p.559-563
Main Authors: Chang, S.-J., Chen, J. Y.-C., Hsu, C.-K., Chuang, F.-C., Yang, S. S.-D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abdominal Surgery
Adolescent
Child
Child, Preschool
Databases, Factual
Female
Hernia, Inguinal - complications
Hernia, Inguinal - epidemiology
Hernia, Inguinal - surgery
Herniorrhaphy - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Incidence
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Original Article
Postoperative Complications - epidemiology
Risk Factors
Taiwan - epidemiology
Time Factors
Waiting Lists
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Summary:Purpose This study uses a national database to evaluate the incidence of inguinal hernia and associated risk factors of incarcerated hernia in children from birth to 15 years of age. Methods The study selected children born from 1997 to 2005 from a randomly selected cohort of 1,000,000 from an insured population of 23 million. We regarded children that were classified with code 550 and hernia surgery in accordance to the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, as having inguinal hernia. We used the 2 chi-square test and logistic regression modeling for statistical analyses. Results In total, 79,794 children (41,767 male and 38,027 female) were enrolled in the study. The cumulative incidence of inguinal hernia in males and females from birth to 15 years old were 6.62 and 0.74 %, respectively ( p  
ISSN:1265-4906
1248-9204
DOI:10.1007/s10029-015-1450-x