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SUBMITTER: Kim SY
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6756725 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kim So Young SY Oh Dong Jun DJ Park Bumjung B Park Il-Seok IS Choi Hyo Geun HG
Medicine 20190901 38
The study aimed to expand previous data regarding an association between asthma and appendectomy in children compared with the population of all ages.The Korean Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service-National Sample Cohort from 2002 through 2013 was used. In all, 22,030 participants who underwent appendectomy were matched for age, sex, income, region of residence, hypertension, diabetes, and dyslipidemia with 88,120 participants who were included as a control group. In both the appendect ...[more]