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Femoral Hernia Repair
Prevalence of inguinal hernia repair stratified by age and gender.
The results indicate the percentage of persons at a given age in the population who were operated for an inguinal 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: 4.14% CI 4.0–4.29% of all males aged 75–80 years in Denmark were operated for an inguinal 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
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© 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.
Figure 2. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0054367.g002
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