Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis - results from a Japanese nationwide epidemiological survey using individual clinical records
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis - results from a Japanese nationwide epidemiological survey using individual clinical records
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1440-1843.2008.01349.x
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发表时间:
2008-09-01
期刊:
影响因子:
6.9
通讯作者:
Sugiyama, Yukihiko
中科院分区:
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作者:
Ohno, Shoji;Nakaya, Takakiyo;Sugiyama, Yukihiko
METHODSAmong patients with IIP, the subjects were those to whom a certificate of medical benefits was delivered in 2005. As medical benefits for IIP are examined in each prefecture, clinical personal records are collected and submitted to the Disease Strategy Section, Health Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and then stored in a database in the Ministry. Using this database, we analysed the age at onset, smoking history, dust inhalation, diagnostic methods, disease type, classification of severity, main symptoms, respiratory dysfunction, imaging findings, serum markers and drug therapy in the new patients, and disease type, classification of severity and drug therapy in the updated patients.