TY - JOUR T1 - Incidence rates of in-hospital carpal tunnel syndrome in the general population and possible associations with marital status. AU - Mattioli,Stefano, AU - Baldasseroni,Alberto, AU - Curti,Stefania, AU - Cooke,Robin M T, AU - Bena,Antonella, AU - de Giacomi,Giovanna, AU - dell'Omo,Marco, AU - Fateh-Moghadam,Pirous, AU - Melani,Carla, AU - Biocca,Marco, AU - Buiatti,Eva, AU - Campo,Giuseppe, AU - Zanardi,Francesca, AU - Violante,Francesco S, Y1 - 2008/10/28/ PY - 2008/03/05/received PY - 2008/10/28/accepted PY - 2008/10/30/pubmed PY - 2009/1/8/medline PY - 2008/10/30/entrez SP - 374 EP - 374 JF - BMC public health JO - BMC Public Health VL - 8 N2 - BACKGROUND: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a socially relevant condition associated with biomechanical risk factors. We evaluated age-sex-specific incidence rates of in-hospital cases of CTS in central/northern Italy and explored relations with marital status. METHODS: Seven regions were considered (overall population, 14.9 million) over 3-6-year periods between 1997 and 2002 (when out-of-hospital CTS surgery was extremely rare). Incidence rates of in-hospital cases of CTS were estimated based on 1) codified demographic, diagnostic and intervention data in obligatory discharge records from all Italian public/private hospitals, archived (according to residence) on regional databases; 2) demographic general population data for each region. We compared (using the chiscore test) age-sex-specific rates between married, unmarried, divorced and widowed subsets of the general population. We calculated standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for married/unmarried men and women. RESULTS: Age-standardized incidence rates (per 100,000 person-years) of in-hospital cases of CTS were 166 in women and 44 in men (106 overall). Married subjects of both sexes showed higher age-specific rates with respect to unmarried men/women. SIRs were calculated comparing married vs unmarried rates of both sexes: 1.59 (95% confidence interval [95% CI], 1.57-1.60) in women, and 1.42 (95% CI, 1.40-1.45) in men. As compared with married women/men, widows/widowers both showed 2-3-fold higher incidence peaks during the fourth decade of life (beyond 50 years of age, widowed subjects showed similar trends to unmarried counterparts). CONCLUSION: This large population-based study illustrates distinct age-related trends in men and women, and also raises the question whether marital status could be associated with CTS in the general population. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/18957090/Incidence_rates_of_in_hospital_carpal_tunnel_syndrome_in_the_general_population_and_possible_associations_with_marital_status_ L2 - https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-8-374 DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -