Temporal Trends in the Incidence and Natural History of Diverticulitis: A Population-Based Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Data on the incidence and natural history of diverticulitis are largely hospital-based and exclude the majority of diverticulitis patients, who are treated in an outpatient setting for uncomplicated diverticulitis. We assessed temporal trends in the epidemiology of diverticulitis in the general population.

Methods

Through the Rochester Epidemiology Project we reviewed the records of all individuals with a diagnosis of diverticulitis from 1980 to 2007 in Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA.

Results

In 1980-1989, the incidence of diverticulitis was 115/100,000 person-years, which increased to 188/100,000 in 2000-2007 (P<0.001). Incidence increased with age (P<0.001); however, the temporal increase was greater in younger people (P<0.001). Ten years after the index

SUBMITTER: Bharucha AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4676761 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature