1. Diabetes is associated with perforated appendicitis: evidence from a population-based study
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Li Ting Kao, Herng Ching Lin, Po Li Wei, Cha Ze Lee, and Yi Hua Chen
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Databases, Factual ,Population ,Taiwan ,030230 surgery ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Risk Factors ,Internal medicine ,Diabetes mellitus ,Diabetes Mellitus ,medicine ,Humans ,education ,Perforated Appendicitis ,education.field_of_study ,business.industry ,General surgery ,General Medicine ,Odds ratio ,Middle Aged ,Appendicitis ,medicine.disease ,Appendix ,Confidence interval ,Population based study ,Logistic Models ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Female ,030211 gastroenterology & hepatology ,Surgery ,Index hospitalization ,business - Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perforated appendicitis and patient with diabetes using a population-based data set.This study used data from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2005 in Taiwan. We identified 4,806 patients hospitalized with acute appendicitis. The independent variable was whether a patient had ever received a diagnosis of diabetes before the index hospitalization. We performed a conditional logistic regression model to explore the odds ratio and its corresponding 95% confidence interval of perforated appendicitis.Rates of perforated appendicitis for patients with and those without diabetes were 46.2% and 28.3%, respectively. A chi-square test revealed that there was a significant difference in rates of perforated appendicitis between patients with and those without diabetes (P.001). The conditional logistic regression model revealed that the adjusted odds ratio of perforated appendicitis for patients with diabetes was 1.35 (95% confidence interval = 1.11 to 1.65) compared with patients without diabetes.Our study demonstrated that a history of diabetes is an important factor with regard to the rate of perforated appendicitis.
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- 2016