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Observational studyPediatric surgery international2018

Epidemiology of Hirschsprung disease in California from 1995 to 2013.

Jamie E Anderson, Melissa A Vanover, Payam Saadai, Rebecca A Stark, Jacob T Stephenson, Shinjiro Hirose

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Observational study in Pediatric surgery international, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Jamie E AndersonDivision of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center, 2215 Stockton Boulevard, OP512, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA. jeanderson@ucdavis.edu.
Melissa A VanoverDivision of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center, 2215 Stockton Boulevard, OP512, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA.
Payam SaadaiDivision of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center, 2215 Stockton Boulevard, OP512, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA.
Rebecca A StarkDivision of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center, 2215 Stockton Boulevard, OP512, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA.
Jacob T StephensonDivision of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center, 2215 Stockton Boulevard, OP512, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA.
Shinjiro HiroseDivision of Pediatric General, Thoracic, and Fetal Surgery, University of California, Davis Medical Center, 2215 Stockton Boulevard, OP512, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThis study seeks to update current epidemiology of Hirschsprung disease (HD) in California.

methodsUsing data from the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development Linked Birth (1995-2012) and Patient Discharge Databases (1995-2013), patients from either dataset with an ICD-9 diagnosis code of HD (751.3) or procedure code of Soave (48.41), Duhamel (48.65), or Swenson/other pull-through (48.49) were included. Patients > age 18 during their first admission were excluded.

resultsOf 9.3 million births, 2,464 patients were identified. Incidence was 2.2 cases/10,000 live births, with rates peaking at 2.9/10,000 births in 2002. Incidence was highest among African American (4.1/10,000) and Asian/Pacific Islander (2.5/10,000) births. Most were male (n = 1652, 67.1%). Sixty patients (2.4%) had Down syndrome. The median gestational age at birth was 38 weeks 6 days (interquartile range [IQR] 37 weeks 1 day-40 weeks 1 day). Mortality during the first year of life was 1.7%. Median age at death was 14.5 days (IQR 0-113 days).

conclusionThis is one of the largest population-based studies of HD. In California, the incidence of HD is stable, risk is highest among African American children, and the mortality rate is < 2%.

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ForecastingRegistriesCaliforniaDatabases, FactualFemaleHirschsprung DiseaseHumansIncidenceInfant, NewbornMaleSurvival RateCaliforniaEpidemiologyHirschsprung diseaseIncidence

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PMID30324568

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