1. Opioid abuse/dependence among those hospitalized due to periapical abscess
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Veerajalandhar Allareddy, Sankeerth Rampa, Romesh P. Nalliah, Kyle Stein, Deepti Shroff, Sangeetha Chandrasekaran, and Veerasathpurush Allareddy
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Periapical Abscess ,Adolescent ,Logistic regression ,Insurance Coverage ,Odds ,Young Adult ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,030212 general & internal medicine ,Medical prescription ,Abscess ,Aged ,Insurance, Health ,business.industry ,Age Factors ,030206 dentistry ,General Medicine ,Odds ratio ,Middle Aged ,Opioid-Related Disorders ,medicine.disease ,United States ,Confidence interval ,Hospitalization ,Cohort ,Female ,business - Abstract
AIM Opioid abuse/dependence (OAD) is an emerging public health crisis in the USA. The aim of the present study was to estimate the nationwide prevalence of OAD in those hospitalized due to periapical abscess in the USA. METHODS The Nationwide Inpatient Sample for 2012-2014 was used. All patients who were hospitalized due to periapical abscess were selected for analysis. In this cohort, OAD was identified and used as the outcome variable. A mix of patient and geographic factors were used as independent variables. The simultaneous association between outcome and independent variables was examined by a multivariable logistic regression model. Clustering of outcomes within hospitals was adjusted. Odds of OAD were computed for all independent variables. RESULTS During the study period, 30 040 patients were hospitalized due to periapical abscess; 1.5% of these had OAD. Those aged 18-29 years (odds ratio [OR] = 3.69, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.76-7.72, P
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- 2018
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