Sex Differences in Health Conditions Associated with Sexual Assault in a Large Hospital Population.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Sexual assault is an urgent public health concern with both immediate and long-lasting health consequences, affecting 44% of women and 25% of men during their lifetimes. Large studies are needed to understand the unique healthcare needs of this patient population.

Methods

We mined clinical notes to identify patients with a history of sexual assault in the electronic health record (EHR) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), a large university hospital in the Southeastern USA, from 1989 to 2021 (N = 3,376,424). Using a phenome-wide case-control study, we identified diagnoses co-occurring with disclosures of sexual assault. We performed interaction tests to examine whether sex modified any of these associations. Association analyses were restricted

SUBMITTER: Lake AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10288064 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature