Ngui André Ngamini, Apparicio Philippe, Fleury Marie-Josée, Lesage Alain, Grégoire Jean-Pierre, Moisan Jocelyne, Vanasse Alain
Groupe PRIMUS, Centre de recherche Étienne-Lebel, Université de Sherbrooke, 3001, 12e Avenue Nord, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada.
Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2013 Sep;6:37-47. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2013.05.003. Epub 2013 Jun 7.
Exploring spatio-temporal patterns of disease incidence can help to identify areas of significantly elevated or decreased risk, providing potential etiologic clues. In this study, we present a spatio-temporal analysis of the incidence of schizophrenia in Quebec from 2004 to 2007 using administrative databases from the Régie de l'Assurance Maladie du Quebec and the hospital discharge database. We conducted purely spatial analyses for each age group adjusted by sex for the whole period using SatScan (version 9.1.1). Findings from the study indicated variations in the spatial clustering of schizophrenia according to sex and age. In term of incidence rate, there are high differences between urban and rural-remote areas, as well as between the two main metropolitan areas of the province of Quebec (Island of Montreal and Quebec-City).
探索疾病发病率的时空模式有助于识别风险显著升高或降低的区域，提供潜在的病因线索。在本研究中，我们利用魁北克省医疗保险局的行政数据库和医院出院数据库，对2004年至2007年魁北克精神分裂症的发病率进行了时空分析。我们使用SatScan（9.1.1版）对整个时期按性别调整的每个年龄组进行了纯空间分析。研究结果表明，精神分裂症的空间聚集在性别和年龄方面存在差异。在发病率方面，城市和农村偏远地区之间以及魁北克省的两个主要大都市区（蒙特利尔岛和魁北克市）之间存在很大差异。
