Prevalence of Eosinophilic Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis and Associated Health Care Utilization Among Patients With Concomitant Asthma in US Commercial Claims Database.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the prevalence and associated disease burden of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) in patients with asthma from a US claims database.

Methods

Two cohorts were defined using enrollees (aged ≥18 years) from the Optum deidentified Clinformatics Datamart claims database 2010-2014, based on validated EGPA case definitions with varying specificity: EGPA 1 (main cohort; more specific; patients with 2 codes [in any combination] within 12 months of each other for eosinophilia, vasculitis, or mononeuritis multiplex) and EGPA 2 (sensitivity analysis cohort; less specific; patients with 2 codes of above conditions and/or neurologic symptoms within 12 months of each other). Patients had 3 or more asthma medications in the 12-month baseline before i

SUBMITTER: Gokhale M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7996234 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature