Clinical Features of Patients With Progressive Supranuclear Palsy in an US Insurance Claims Database.

ABSTRACT: Background: Progressive supranuclear palsy is a rare neurodegenerative movement disorder and little is known about its epidemiology. Objective: Estimate age-adjusted prevalence of progressive supranuclear palsy and describe antecedent diagnoses and progressive supranuclear palsy patient features in the 5 years before first diagnostic code. Methods: In a nested case-control study in the IBM MarketScan Commercial and Medicare Supplemental Databases, a large set of US insurance databases containing medical service and prescription drug claims from employer-based commercial and Medicare supplemental health insurance plans, progressive supranuclear palsy cases (identified via International Statistical Classification of Diseases 9th/10th revision codes) and controls were inc

SUBMITTER: Viscidi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8245849 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature