Yeungnam University Researchers Provide New Data on Respiratory Syncytial Viruses (An Investigation of the Relationship between Henoch-Schonlein Purpura and Viral Infection in Korea Using the Health Insurance Database): RNA Viruses – Respiratory Syncytial Viruses

2024 MAR 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on respiratory syncytial viruses is the subject of a new report. According to news reporting from Daegu, South Korea, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “This study investigated the epidemiology and viral connections of Henoch-Schonlein purpura (HSP) using information from the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency and the Health Insurance Review and Assessment database.”

Financial supporters for this research include 2021 Yeungnam University Research Grant.

The news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Yeungnam University: “(2) Between 2016 and 2019, a total of 25,443 patients with HSP were identified, with 51.3% of patients under the age of 20 years and the highest incidence in March. The autoregressive integrated moving average model and Granger causality test were used to analyze the association between the virus positivity detection rate and HSP incidence.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “The incidence of HSP was associated with rotavirus, bocavirus, parainfluenza virus, and respiratory syncytial virus in individuals under 20 years of age, whereas adenovirus, respiratory syncytial virus, and norovirus were associated with individuals above that age.”

For more information on this research see: An Investigation of the Relationship between Henoch-Schonlein Purpura and Viral Infection in Korea Using the Health Insurance Database. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2024,13(5):1290. (Journal of Clinical Medicine - http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm). The publisher for Journal of Clinical Medicine is MDPI AG.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm13051290.

Our news editors report that additional information may be obtained by contacting So Hyeon Park, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daegu 42415, South Korea. Additional authors for this research include Su Min Jo, Sang Won Kim, Jae Min Lee, Hee Sun Baek. Our reports deliver fact-based news of research and discoveries from around the world.