Regional variation in the incidence of abdominal aortic aneurysm in Sweden

Abstract

The higher incidence of AAA in the north of Sweden corresponds well with reported CHD patterns. The incidence of AAA in the population did not increase significantly over time, in contrast to the increasing intervention rates.

Incidence, Treatment and Mortality in Patients with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

“…The hospital incidence for AAA, standardized to the European Standard Population 2013, was 27.9 per 100 000 men, and 3.3 per 100 000 women. Taking into account bias due to methodological differences, these data are congruent with results from southern Sweden (of 32.6 per 100 000 men, and 5.6 per 100 000 women), among others (12). However, hospital incidence values found in analysis were at the lower end of internationally reported incidences (of 11-117 per 100 000 men, and 2.2-34 per 100 000 women) (13).…”

Sex differences in the association between smoking and abdominal aortic aneurysm

“…After similar adjustment for age, the incidence of AAA between 1998 and 2005 in the SMC and the COSM corresponded to the incidence between 1990 and 2005 in central Sweden (31·8 versus 26·8 events per 100 000 person‐years respectively among women, and 85·6 versus 86·5 per 100 000 person‐years respectively in men).…”

Spatial Analysis of Hospital Incidence and in Hospital Mortality of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms in Germany: Secondary Data Analysis of Nationwide Hospital Episode (DRG) Data

“…The overall hospital incidence of AAA was about 16 per 100,000 inhabitants, which is within the range reported for other countries. 6,9,28,29 Temporal trends and discussion of nationally aggregated results from Germany have already been published by the present study workgroup. 16 For the analyses of regional variation, the SCV was found to be superior to other measures of variation e such as standard deviation, coefficient of variation, or extremal coefficient e because it distinguishes systematic variation between regions from random variation within regions.…”