Temporal Trend of the Incidence and Characteristics of Renal Infarction: Korean Nationwide Population Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Large-scale studies about epidemiologic characteristics of renal infarction (RI) are few. In this study, we aimed to analyze the incidence and prevalence of RI with comorbidities in the South Korean population.

Methods

We investigated the medical history of the entire South Korean adult population between 2013 and 2019 using the National Health Insurance Service database (n = 51,849,591 in 2019). Diagnosis of RI comorbidities were confirmed with International Classification of Disease, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification codes. Epidemiologic characteristics, distribution of comorbidities according to etiologic mechanisms, and trend of antithrombotic agents were estimated.

Results

During the 7-years, 10,496 patients were newly diagnosed with RI. The incide

SUBMITTER: Kim DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10412037 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature