Prevalence of eosinophilic esophagitis in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background & aims

Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) has become a major cause of upper gastrointestinal morbidity in children and adults. However, there are few data on the nationwide prevalence of EoE. We aimed to estimate the prevalence of EoE in the United States.

Methods

We collected health insurance claims from a large database that represented the U.S. commercially insured population. We analyzed data from 2008 to 2011, identifying cases of EoE by using a previously validated definition, and calculated a period prevalence by using data from 2009 to 2011. EoE was defined as any instance of the International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision code 530.13. We calculated the prevalence of the code in the database and standardized the estimate to the U.S. population.

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SUBMITTER: Dellon ES 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3952040 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature