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Prevalence and incidence of Coats disease in a large claims database

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  • Nobuhisa Ochiai
  • Kenji Fujimoto
  • Kazuma Oku
  • Hiroyuki Kondo

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Purpose: To determine the prevalence and incidence of Coats disease in the Japan Medical Data Center (JMDC) claims database. Methods: Data on patients with Coats disease were collected from the JMDC claims database that were collected over a five-year period between 2019–2023. The patients with were grouped by their sex and age. The prevalence and incidence were then calculated relative to all of the members in the JMDC database. The treatment rate was calculated as the ratio of patients receiving retinal photocoagulation or vitrectomy to the total number of patients over the five-year period. Results: The age-adjusted prevalence of Coats disease in the JMDC database was 1.7/100,000 with 2.4 males to 0.9 females for the five-year period. The age-adjusted prevalence in children

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  • Nobuhisa Ochiai & Kenji Fujimoto & Kazuma Oku & Hiroyuki Kondo, 2025. "Prevalence and incidence of Coats disease in a large claims database," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 20(12), pages 1-10, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0329871
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0329871
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