Bruce K Tan, Rakesh K Chandra, Jonathan Pollak, Atsushi Kato, David B Conley, Anju T Peters, Leslie C Grammer, Pedro C Avila, Robert C Kern, Walter F Stewart, Robert P Schleimer, Brian S Schwartz
BACKGROUND: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a prevalent condition with underexplored risk factors. OBJECTIVES: We sought to determine CRS incidence and evaluate associations with a range of premorbid medical conditions for chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps (CRSsNP) and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) using real-world clinical practice data. METHODS: Electronic health records data from 446,480 Geisinger Clinic primary care patients were used for a retrospective longitudinal cohort study for data from 2001-2010...
May 2013: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology