Health expenditure trajectory and gastric cancer incidence in the National Health Insurance Senior Cohort: a nested case-control study.

Autor: Lee WR; Department of Research and Analysis, National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital, Goyang, Republic of Korea., Yoo KB; Division of Health Administration, College of Software and Digital Healthcare Convergence, Yonsei University, Wonju, Republic of Korea., Noh JW; Division of Health Administration, College of Software and Digital Healthcare Convergence, Yonsei University, Wonju, Republic of Korea., Lee M; Department of Population Science and Policy, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, 201 E. Madison Street, Springfield, IL, USA. mlee88@siumed.edu.; Simmons Cancer Institute, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL, USA. mlee88@siumed.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC health services research [BMC Health Serv Res] 2024 Sep 16; Vol. 24 (1), pp. 1076. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 16.
DOI: 10.1186/s12913-024-11494-y
Abstrakt: Background: Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and highly prevalent in South Korea. As one of the predictors of gastric cancer, we focused on health utilization patterns and expenditures, as the surrogate variables of health conditions. This nested case-control study aimed to identify the association between health expenditure trajectory and incidence of gastric cancer.
Methods: Data from the National Health Insurance Service Senior Cohort of South Korea were used. Individuals diagnosed with gastric cancer (N = 14,873) were matched to a non-diagnosed group (N = 44,619) in a 1:3 ratio using a nested case-control design. A latent class trajectory analysis was performed to identify the patterns of health expenditure among the matched participants. Furthermore, conditional logistic regression analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between healthcare expenditure trajectories and gastric cancer incidence.
Results: Seven distinct health expenditure trajectories for five years were identified; consistently lowest (13.8%), rapidly increasing (5.9%), gradually increasing (13.8%), consistently second-highest (21.4%), middle-low (18.8%), gradually decreasing (13.1%), and consistently highest (13.2%). Compared to the middle-low group, individuals in the rapidly increasing [odds ratio (OR) = 2.11, 95% confidence interval (CI); 1.94-2.30], consistently lowest (OR = 1.40, 95% CI; 1.30-1.51), and gradually increasing (OR = 1.26, 95% CI; 1.17-1.35) groups exhibited a higher risk of developing gastric cancer.
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that health expenditure trajectories are predictors of gastric cancer. Potential risk groups can be identified by monitoring health expenditures.
(© 2024. The Author(s).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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