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Trend Analysis of Smoking-Attributable Hospitalizations in Thailand, 2007–2014 Tobacco Induced Diseases Research Paper Trend analysis of smoking-attributable hospitalizations in Thailand, 2007–2014 Roengrudee Patanavanich1, Wichai Aekplakorn1, Paibul Suriyawongpaisal1 ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION Tobacco use is a major preventable risk factor for many noncommunicable diseases. Smoking-attributable mortality has been well AFFILIATION described. However, the prevalence of smoking-attributable hospitalization 1 Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, (SAH) and associated costs have been less documented, especially in low- and Mahidol University, Bangkok, middle-income countries. Our objective was to estimate the number of hospital Thailand admissions and expenditure attributable to tobacco use during 2007–2014 in CORRESPONDENCE TO Thailand. Roengrudee Patanavanich. Faculty of Medicine, METHODS Hospitalization data between 2007 and 2014 were used for the analysis. Ramathibodi Hospital, SAHs were derived by applying smoking-attributable fractions, based on Mahidol University, 207 Rama Thailand’s estimates of smoking prevalence data and relative risks extracted from VI Road, Ratchathewi District, 10400 Bangkok, Thailand. the published literature, to hospital admissions related to smoking according E-mail: kade.patanavanich@ to the International Classification of Diseases version 10. Age-adjusted SAHs gmail.com among adults age 35 and older were calculated. Joinpoint regression analysis KEYWORDS was used to detect changes in trends among genders and geographical areas, smoking, Thailand, hospital admission, tobacco, based on annual per cent change (APC) and average annual per cent change attributable (AAPC). Costs related to SAHs were also estimated. Received: 4 August 2018 RESULTS During 2007–2014, among adults age 35 years and older, smoking Revised: 14 September 2018 accounted for almost 3.6 million hospital admissions, with attributable hospital Accepted: 10 October 2018 costs calculated at more than US$572 million annually, which represents 16.8% of the national hospital budget. While the age-adjusted rate of SAHs had been relatively stable (AAPC=1.12), the age-adjusted rate of SAHs due to cancers increased significantly for both sexes (AAPC=2.33). Cardiovascular diseases related to smoking increased significantly among men (AAPC=2.5), whereas, COPD, the most common smoking-related conditions decreased significantly during 2011–2014 (APC= -7.21). Furthermore, more provinces in the northeastern and the southern regions where smoking prevalence was higher than the national average have a significantly higher AAPC of SAH than other parts of the country. CONCLUSIONS Smoking remains a significant health and economic burden in Thailand. Findings from this study pose compelling evidence for Thailand to advance tobacco control efforts to reduce the financial and social burden of diseases attributable to smoking. Tob. Induc. Dis. 2018;16(November):52 https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/98913 INTRODUCTION there has been growing awareness of the health Since the report of the U.S. Surgeon General in 1964 risks of smoking worldwide. In 2014, the report of concluded that smoking was a cause of lung cancer, the U.S. Surgeon General revealed that cigarette Published by EUEP European Publishing on behalf of the International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases (ISPTID). © 2018 Patanavanich R. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 1 Tobacco Induced Diseases Research Paper smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke affect METHODS nearly every organ of the body; involving at least Data sources 15 types of cancer, various cardiovascular and To calculate the proportion of SAHs attributable to respiratory diseases1. Recently, the World Health tobacco use, data on the prevalence of smoking, the Organization (WHO) reports that one-fifth of the relative risk of smokers developing a certain disease world population age 15 years and older are current or condition, and the number of hospital admissions smokers and smoking causes 7 million deaths each for such disease or condition is required8. year2,3. Smoking prevalence data for the Thai population In Thailand, active antismoking movements were obtained from the 2011 National Cigarette began in 1986; the antismoking campaigns Smoking and Alcohol Drinking Behavior Survey, resulted in the legislation of new laws on tobacco collected by the National Statistical Office10. control (the Tobacco Control Act of 1992 and There is no comprehensive cohort study in the Non-Smokers Health Protection Act of Thailand that collects data on smoking behavior and 1992). Moreover, Thailand has ratified the WHO health-related outcomes to obtain the relative risk. Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Therefore, a list of smoking-related conditions and (WHO FCTC) since 20044. Thereafter, several their relative risks included in this study were based tobacco control policies were put in place, such on the 2014 Health Consequences of Smoking–50 as increasing taxes on tobacco products, ban Years of Progress: A Report from the Surgeon on cigarette advertising, smoking-free zones, General1.The report provides the widely acceptable provincial antismoking programs, and health rubric of smoking-related disease categories and the warning on tobacco products. Smoking prevalence associated relative risk values that are based on the among the population age 15 years and older in first 6 years of follow-up of the Cancer Prevention Thailand has fallen from 54.7% (male) and 6.1% Study II during 1982–1988 (CPS-II), one of the (female) in 1976 to 37.7% and 1.7% in 20175,6. largest U.S. cohort studies that collects smoking Although knowledge has expanded dramatically information1. on the health consequences of the diseases caused Inpatient de-identified discharge data between by tobacco use and involuntary exposure to 2007 and 2014 from three major health insurance tobacco smoke, studies on health outcomes related schemes (universal coverage, social security, and civil to smoking in Thailand are relatively rare. servant schemes – accounted for nearly 99% of the Smoking-attributable mortality (SAM), a Thai population) were obtained from the National health impact indicator for tobacco control Health Security Office, the Social Security Office and has been well described. Many countries the Health Insurance System Research Office11. The have used smoking-attributable fraction information presented in this study was based on any (SAF) to estimate SAM for monitoring and diagnosis for each hospital admission (the principal evaluation of their tobacco control policies7. diagnosis and other up to 12 sub-diagnoses). The Some of these countries have extended the discharge data also provided information on total use of SAF to hospitalization data to estimate hospital charge for each admission. smoking-attributable hospitalization (SAH)7-9. Population estimates were based on 2007–2014 However, SAH has been less documented, Thailand population statistics from Thailand’s particularly in low- and middle-income countries Official Statistics Registration Systems, Department (LMICs). To assist antismoking efforts aimed of Provincial Administration and the world standard at reducing smoking prevalence in Thailand, population from the WHO12,13. and to help reduce the health consequences attributable to tobacco use, information on the Calculation of smoking-attributable hospitalizations effects of smoking on morbidity is needed. Our To quantify the contribution of smoking as a risk objective was to estimate the number of hospital factor for hospital admissions, the SAF for such admissions and costs attributable to tobacco use conditions must be identified. SAF is a function between 2007 and 2014 in Thailand. of the prevalence of smoking and the relative risk Tob. Induc. Dis. 2018;16(November):52 https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/98913 2 Tobacco Induced Diseases Research Paper function of each smoking-related condition, and its Trend analysis of smoking-attributable calculation enables the estimation of the proportion hospitalizations of cases of a disease that may be attributed to the The direct age-standardization method was applied use of tobacco. The SAFs for chronic diseases to calculate the age-adjusted rate of SAHs. Time were calculated by Levin’s formula of population trends in the annual rate of the age-adjusted rate attributable fraction14,15: of SAHs were examined using joinpoint regression SAF = Σi (Pi (RRi - 1)) / Σi (1 + Pi (RRi - 1)) analysis to detect changes in annual per cent change where Pi = prevalence of smoking in group i, with (APC) and average annual per cent change (AAPC). RRi = relative risk in exposed group i compared with The trends were generated for both sexes, men and the unexposed group, and Σi is a summation over women. each i corresponding to three exposure groups (non- AAPCs calculated by joinpoint regression smoker, former smoker, current smoker). analysis uses the annual per cent changes from The SAFs were calculated across the three segmented analysis to summarize and compare categories, non-smoker, current smoker, and former trends for a specific time period. The advantage smoker, for each sex, then combined to estimate the of AAPCs is that it takes into account the trend overall SAF for both sexes for each disease. transitions; whereas, the conventional annual To calculate the proportion of SAHs, the SAF was per cent change does not and can lead to inaccurate applied
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