Trend of incidence rate of age-related diseases: results from the National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort (NHIS-NSC) database in Korea: a cross- sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to identify and select age-related diseases (ARDs) in Korea, which is about to have a super-aged society, and to elucidate patterns in their incidence rates.

Methods

The National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort, comprising 1 million health insurance and medical benefit beneficiaries in Korea from 2002 to 2019, was utilized. We selected 14 diseases with high disease burden and prevalence among Koreans from the 92 diseases defined in the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study as ARDs. The annual incidence rate represented the number of patients newly diagnosed with an ARD each year from 2006 to 2019, excluding those with a history of ARD diagnosis from 2002 to 2005. The incidence rate by age was categorized into

SUBMITTER: Ryou IS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10714524 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature