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Inguinal Hernia Repair

Prevalence of groin hernia repair, inguinal hernia and femoral hernia combined, stratified by age and gender.

The results indicate the percentage of persons at a given age in the population who were operated for a groin hernia during the study period.

The study population covered n = 5,639,885 persons including 2,799,105 males and 2,840,780 females. Within this population 46,717 persons, 88.6% males and 11.4% females, had at least one groin hernia repair during the five year study period.

Example: 4.19% CI 4.04–4.34% of all males aged 75–80 years in Denmark were operated for a groin hernia at least once during the study period.

Reference

Burcharth J, Pedersen M, Bisgaard T, Pedersen C, Rosenberg J Nationwide Prevalence of Groin Hernia Repair PLoS ONE 8(1): e54367. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054367 (2013) PLoS ONE

Copyright

© 2013 Burcharth et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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