Faculty Articles
Trends of Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) In the United States (2005-2014)
ISBN or ISSN
1879-2472
Publication Title
Thrombosis Research
Volume
182
Publication Date / Copyright Date
10-1-2019
First Page
110
Last Page
115
Publisher
Elsevier
DOI Number
10.1016/j.thromres.2019.08.013
Abstract
Introduction
Cancer patients are prone to higher risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) compared to the general population. However, the estimated incidence of cancer-associated VTE varied among the studies. The primary objective of this study was to determine the national annual incidence and examine the trend of cancer-associated VTE in the US over the years from 2005 to 2014.
Methods
A retrospective population based study was conducted using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. The study included all noninstitutionalized US adults aged ≥18 years who had a final person-weight > 0 to be representative of the national population. Simple linear regression (SLR) and Mann-Kendall (MK) tests were used to examine the trend of cancer-associated VTE over the years.
Results
On average, there were 15,570,000 adult persons living with a cancer condition every year. Female represented 53.8% of the study population, and the mean of age was 63.5 years. The overall annual incidence of cancer-associated VTE varied between 1.80 and 0.72% over the years, with an overall average of 1.18%. The study found a non-significant downward trend in the incidence of cancer-associated VTE over the years. Patients who had cancer-associated VTE were significantly older than patients without VTE (mean 68.64 vs. 62.68 years, p < .0001).
Conclusion
The study found cancer patients continued to have the risk of VTE over the years. The non-significant downward trend in cancer-associated VTE suggests that health care practitioners are heading in the right direction, but enhanced preventative care is needed to avoid further incidents of cancer-associated VTE.
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Keywords
cancer, cancer-associated venous thromboembolism, DVT, MEPS, PE, trend analysis, VTE
NSUWorks Citation
Almohammed, Omar A.; Lai, Leanne; Khanfar, Nile M.; Bleidt, Barry A.; and Aljadhey, Hisham, "Trends of Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism (VTE) In the United States (2005-2014)" (2019). Faculty Articles. 49.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_corx_facarticles/49
