Epidemiology of stone disease in Italy
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1.Objective
Worldwide the urolithiasis is the third most urological disease affecting both males and females. In literature there are not new Italian epidemiological data about stone disease. The objective of this study is to evaluation current Italian epidemiological situation about urolithiasis using Health Search/CSD Longitudinal Patient Database (HS) database
2.Materials and results:
It is an observational, descriptive, retrospective trial. Inclusion criteria are: family physician- assisted Italian living population member of database HS within 31 December 2012 with urolithiasis, of both genders, aged over 17 years, with at least two years of clinical history recorded from the beginning the trial. Registered informations were: demographic informations, clinical informations (Body mass index-BMI-smoking, pressure blood, biochemistry analysis, imaging, hospitalization, drugs etc.).Each patient coincided with a nameless code, so all informations of each patient were reported with equivalent code. The nomenclature of was concordant with Official Journal, drug’s name was concordant with code Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (ATC), while diseases were concordant with International Classification of diseases 9° Edition (ICD-9).Data of population were collected by database Health Search and elaborated by its software Millewin®.
In Italy prevalence of urolithiasis in 2012 is 4.14%, it is higher among male (M 4.53 % versus F 3,78%), there is a positive relation with increasing age. In Campania is regarded higher prevalence (6.08%) of urolithiasis versus other Italian region. The incidence is 2.23 *1000,with higher incidence in Sicilia (3.15 *1000). It is higher in group age 65-74 years (3.18*1000).
3.Discussion
In Italy the incidence and prevalence of urolithiasis is increasing with particular distribution among gender, age and Italian region.
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