Incidence of gestational trophoblastic disease in South Korea: a longitudinal, population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We investigated the rate and longitudinal trends of gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) incidence in the Republic of Korea between 2009 and 2015 using population-based data.

Materials and methods

Data of patients diagnosed with GTD from 2009 to 2015 were obtained from the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service/National Inpatient Sample (HIRA-NIS) in the Republic of Korea. The HIRA annually provides the HIRA-NIS, a collection of clinical data from over one million people. For each year, the HIRA-NIS extracted records of 13% of patients admitted at any one time during the year and 1% of all remaining patients using the weighted sample method.

Results

Medical records of 370,117 women with at least one pregnancy (GTD, ectopic pregnancy, abortion,

SUBMITTER: Yuk JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6387577 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature