Descriptive Epidemiology of Soil-Transmitted Helminth Infections in the United States: Using Big Data to Characterize Patients and Analyze Parasitic Disease Trends
Chad L Cross, Bryson Carrier, Miklo A A Alcala, Louisa A Messenger, Timothy G Geary · 2024
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Description
Chad Cross and co-authors use big hospital data in 2024 to describe soil transmitted worm infections in the United States. These worms cause hookworm disease and two other named infections, once common and now curbed by drugs and better sanitation, yet still seen. Hard data on who gets them are scarce, so the team mined national inpatient discharge records over more than two decades.
Their method pulled diagnostic codes for these infections from hundreds of millions of records. Cases averaged a few hundred a year, led by one worm type, then hookworm, then the third. Patients skewed older, and chronic anemia and heart disease were common alongside. Male cases ran higher for hookworm only. The study doubles as a model for using patient record databases as a quiet watch system for parasitic disease trends.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Chad L Cross, Bryson Carrier, Miklo A A Alcala, Louisa A Messenger, Timothy G Geary |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |