Risk of illness, hospitalization and death in a cohort of blood donors in Italy
2014
AbstractObjective:The aim of this study was to determine whether blood donors (BDs), compared with non blood donors (nBDs), present significant differences in risk of illness, hospitalization and death.Methods:All subjects included in the database of the Association of Voluntary Italian Blood Donors of Ferrara entered the study. The analysis only included residents who donated at least once. For each BD, four age- and sex-matched non-donor controls were selected from the master archive of the Province of Ferrara. Then, all hospitalizations of BDs and controls from January 2005 to December 2010 were extracted from the hospital admission and discharge database of the region.Results:During the considered period, 26,140 hospital admissions in BDs and 98,685 in controls were recorded; 11,862 individual BDs and 43,138 nBDs. Compared with controls, BDs were characterized by older age, lower average number of admissions and diagnoses, Charlson comorbidity index score, shorter hospital length-of-stay (LOS), lower ...
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