Real world epidemiology of myeloproliferative neoplasms: a population based study in Korea 2004–2013

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• 作者：Ja Min Byun ; Young Jin Kim ; Taemi Youk ; John Jeongseok Yang…
• 关键词：Myeloproliferative neoplasm ; Epidemiology ; Asia ; Medical cost
• 刊名：Annals of Hematology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：96
• 期：3
• 页码：373-381
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• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Hematology; Oncology;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1432-0584
• 卷排序：96

文摘

Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), with an expected increment in number, impose substantial economic and social burdens. To this end, we conducted a nationwide population-based descriptive epidemiology study. We also investigated medical cost associated with MPNs. Prevalence was the highest for essential thrombocythemia (ET) (range 4.1–9.0 per 100,000), followed by polycythemia vera (PV) (range 2.8–5.4 per 100,000) and primary myelofibrosis (PMF) (range 0.5–0.9 per 100,000). ET incurred the highest cumulative total cost at US$35 million and the most frequent hospital visits, while PMF incurred the highest average cost per person at US$5000. The mean hemoglobin level was 16.9 ± 2.2 g/dL for PV males and 15.5 ± 2.7 g/dL for PV females. Further analyses on hemoglobin levels showed the true positive rate of PV from the significantly elevated hemoglobin group (defined as >18.5 g/dL for men and >16.5 g/dL for women) was 3.01% and that of MPNs was 3.1%. Here, we provide the biggest population-based report on MPN epidemiology that can readily be used as a representative Asian data.