Incidence of venous thrombotic events and events of special interest in a retrospective cohort of commercially insured US patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the US incidence of thrombotic events and related rare diagnoses.

Design

Claims-based retrospective cohort study of incidence.

Setting

US commercial health insurance administrative claims database.

Participants

Adults 25-64 years of age between 2015 and 2019 with a minimum of 12 consecutive thrombosis-free months of continuous enrolment beginning 2014 were selected.

Main outcomes

Age (10-year intervals) and sex stratum-specific incidence rates per 100 000 person-years were determined for venous thromboembolism (VTE), cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) and other major venous thrombotic events, and events of special interest, including immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), haemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) and heparin-induced thrombocyt

SUBMITTER: Weller SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8829845 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature