ArticleInfluenza and other respiratory viruses2024
The Burden of Seasonal Influenza and Its Potential Complications Among Older Japanese Adults: A Real-World Database Study.
Article in Influenza and other respiratory viruses, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Incidence of RSV- and Influenza-Associated Hospitalizations With Community-Acquired Pneumonia and Other Acute Respiratory Infection Among Adults in Japan in 2022-2024: APSG-J2 Study.Influenza and other respiratory viruses · 2026Article
- Article
- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Influenza Treatments in Japan Using a Transmission Model: The Impact of Baloxavir and Oseltamivir Shares.Infectious diseases and therapy · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundSeasonal influenza may lead to severe complications, including respiratory and cardiovascular disease, that result in considerable healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and mortality, particularly in older individuals. This real-world study assessed the burden of influenza and its potential complications in older Japanese adults.
methodsThis retrospective claims database analysis (April 2015 to June 2019) included insured individuals aged ≥ 60 years at the start of four consecutive influenza seasons in Japan (October 1 to April 30). The primary endpoint was the incidence of influenza-related emergency room (ER) and outpatient visits, the incidence of hospitalizations, the probability of 30-day inpatient mortality, and 60-day medical costs of influenza or its potential complications.
resultsOf 8,974,708 individuals (43.2% male, mean ± standard deviation age 73.8 ± 8.9 years), 370,430 (4.13%) were diagnosed with influenza. Overall, 17.18 (95% confidence interval [CI] 16.32-18.04) and 3893.53 (3880.87-3906.19) per 100,000 individuals had influenza-related ER and outpatient visits, respectively, and 181.50 (178.71-184.28) per 100,000 individuals were hospitalized for influenza. The incidence of influenza-related ER visits and hospitalizations for influenza or potential complications and the probability of 30-day inpatient mortality increased with age.
conclusionsSeasonal influenza and its potential complications represent a substantial burden that increases with age in Japanese individuals.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.