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Changes in Hospitalization for Ischemic Heart Disease After the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake: 10 Years of Data in a Population of 300,000

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2015

Kaisen Huang ,
Dejia Huang ,
Dingxiu He ,
Joris van Loenhout ,
Wei Liu ,
Baotao Huang ,
Xiaojian Deng ,
Qi Wu ,
Mao Chen  and
Debarati Guha-Sapir
Kaisen Huang
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China Department of Cardiology, People’s Hospital of Deyang City, Chengdu University of TCM, Deyang, China.
Dejia Huang
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Dingxiu He
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency, People’s Hospital of Deyang City, Chengdu University of TCM, Deyang, China
Joris van Loenhout
Affiliation:
The World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Institute of Health and Society, University of Louvain, Brussels
Wei Liu
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Baotao Huang
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Xiaojian Deng
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, People’s Hospital of Deyang City, Chengdu University of TCM, Deyang, China.
Qi Wu
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, People’s Hospital of Deyang City, Chengdu University of TCM, Deyang, China.
Mao Chen
Affiliation:
Department of Cardiology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Debarati Guha-Sapir*
Affiliation:
The World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Institute of Health and Society, University of Louvain, Brussels
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Debarati Guha-Sapir, PhD, CRED, Ecole de Santé Publique, Chapelle-aux-Champs 30, BteB11.30.15, Institute of Health and Society, University of Louvain, 1200 Brussels, Belgium (e-mail: debby.sapir@uclouvain.be).
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Abstract

Objective

The effects of earthquakes on ischemic heart disease (IHD) have often been reported. At a population level, this study examined short-term (60-day) and long-term (5-year) hospitalization events for IHD after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Methods

We examined the 10-year medical hospitalization records on IHD in the city of Deyang provided by the Urban Employee Basic Health Insurance program.

Results

Evaluation of 19,083 hospitalizations showed a significantly lower proportional number and cost of hospitalizations in the 60 days after the earthquake (P<0.001). Hospitalizations were 27.81% lower than would have been expected in a normal year; costs were 32.53% lower. However, in the 5 years after the earthquake, the age-adjusted annual incidence of hospitalization increased significantly (P<0.001). In the fifth year after the earthquake, it was significantly higher in the extremely hard-hit area than in the hard-hit area (P<0.01).

Conclusion

After the 2008 earthquake, short- and long-term patterns of hospitalization for IHD changed greatly, but in different ways. Our findings suggest that medical resources for IHD should be distributed dynamically over time after an earthquake. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:203–210)

Keywords

ischemic heart diseaseearthquakepopulationhospitalizationpublic health

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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 2016 , pp. 203 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2015 

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