Abstract:
BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perforated appendicitis and patient with diabetes using a population-based data set. METHODS: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. RESULTS: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. CONCLUSIONS:Our study demonstrated that a history of diabetes is an important factor with regard to the rate of perforated appendicitis.
journal_name
Am J Surgjournal_title
American journal of surgeryauthors
Wei PL,Lin HC,Kao LT,Chen YH,Lee CZdoi
10.1016/j.amjsurg.2015.08.041subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-10-01 00:00:00pages
735-739issue
4eissn
0002-9610issn
1879-1883pii
S0002-9610(16)30207-0journal_volume
212pub_type
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