Incidence of Lyme disease in the UK: a population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this study was to estimate the annual incidence of Lyme disease (LD) in the UK.

Design

This was a retrospective descriptive cohort study.

Setting

Study data were extracted from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD), a primary care database covering about 8% of the population in the UK in 658 primary care practices.

Participants

Cohort of 8.4 million individuals registered with general practitioners with 52.4 million person-years of observation between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2012.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

LD was identified from recorded medical codes, notes indicating LD, laboratory tests and use of specific antibiotics. Annual incidence rates and the estimated total number of LD cases were calculat

SUBMITTER: Cairns V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6677952 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature