Epidemiology characteristics of crawfish related rhabdomyolysis in Nanjing, 2016: a multicenter retrospective investigation

• Published in: Zhonghua wei zhong bing ji jiu yi xue Vol. 29; no. 9; p. 805
• Main Authors: Ma, Shaolei, Xu, Changsheng, Liu, Songqiao, Hu, Zongfeng, Liu, Wen'ge, Zhang, Jinsong, Chen, Xufeng, Nie, Shinan, Zhang, Jun, Sha, Dujuan, Li, Jinjin, Ni, Haibin, Qin, Haidong, Gao, Ying, Wang, Wei, Wu, Chengfang, Yu, Zhan, Zhu, Congjian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 01.09.2017
• Subjects: Adult; Animals; Astacoidea; China - epidemiology; Female; Foodborne Diseases - epidemiology; Geographic Information Systems; Humans; Male; Retrospective Studies; Rhabdomyolysis - epidemiology; Spatial Analysis; China
• ISSN: 2095-4352
• DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-4352.2017.09.008

To investigate the epidemiology characteristics of crawfish related rhabdomyolysis (RM) in Nanjing, 2016. Outpatient and inpatient electronic medical system of 21 hospitals in Nanjing during 2016 were retrospectively searched, and all the patients diagnosed with RM were selected. The patients with none crayfish-related RM was excluded. The epidemiology characteristics were depicted. The geographic information system (GIS) was used to collect, manage and analyze the spatial data, to visualize it, to analyze the spatial distribution features of the disease, and to explore the cause of disease prediction. GeoDa 1.8 software was used to analyze the global and local spatial auto-correlation. A total of 1 183 patients with crawfish related RM were initially screened, excluding 59 patients with RM caused by trauma, severe exercise, heat stroke, myositis, poisoning, drugs, and genetic diseases, and 1 124 patients were enrolled. The proportion of men was 36.48% (410/1 124) with an incidence of 12.54/100 thousands; whi