20 25 The second approach takes a lifetime perspective based on retrospective databases or medical record reviews and aims to estimate the impact of body mass index (BMI) categories on use of resources and direct costs for a set of related diseases.
The overall prevalence of AGWs based on retrospective administrative databases or medical chart reviews or prospectively collected physician reports ranged from 0.13% to 0.56%, whereas it ranged from 0.2%to5.1%1% based on genital examinations.
Reported annual incidence rates typically range between 100 and 200 new cases per 100,000 general adult population based on retrospective administrative databases, medical chart reviews and prospectively collected physician reports.
Among thirteen studies based on retrospective administrative databases or medical chart reviews, prospectively collected physician reports or genital examinations providing incidence or prevalence estimates for both sexes, nine reported higher rates for males than for females (Tables 1 and 2) [ 2, 29- 33, 38, 40, 41].
Further, those studies which were designed prospectively and which used better methods of adjusting for differences in the baseline characteristics between groups were more likely to show an increase in the risk of mortality compared with studies which were based on retrospective registries or databases, although, again, the size of the effect was not consistent across all studies.
In this latter study, based on retrospective analysis of Northern Denmark database, 30-day mortality was lower in metformin users than in non-metformin users with adjusted hazard ratio = 0.895%5% confidence interval 0.71 0.95).
Our findings are based on retrospective analyses of a US health insurance database; the degree to which results reported herein are generalizable to the experience of patients with GAD in other countries, where the medications indicated for the treatment GAD may differ from that in the US, is unknown.
Results based on retrospective reports should be interpreted with caution.
Each sample was categorized based on retrospective racecourse performance records.
However, the score is based on retrospective data.
