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An abdominal hernia is an abnormal protrusion of an organ or tissue through a defect in the abdominal wall. This infographic provides information on incident diagnoses of the five types of abdominal hernia that were documented in health records of 72,404 active component service members from 1 January 2005 through 31 December 2014. A total of 87,480 incident diagnoses of the five types of abdominal hernia were documented in health records of 72,404 active component service members. Here are highlights of the findings from this study: • The give types of abdominal hernia categories used in this analysis were: inguinal, umbilical ventral/ incisional, femoral and “other.” • During the 10-year interval, incidence rates for most of the five types of hernia trended downward but increased for umbilical hernias in both males and females and ventral/ incisional hernias among females. • Overall incidence rate of inguinal hernias among males was six times the rate among females. • Incidence rates of femoral, ventral/ incisional and umbilical hernias were higher among females than males. • For most types of hernia incidence rates tend to be higher among older age groups. Abdominal hernias are diagnosed most frequently in the inguinal, umbilical, and femoral regions, but another category of relatively common hernias of the anterior abdominal wall includes ventral and incisional hernias. Health records contained documentation for 35,624 surgical procedures whose description corresponded to the types of hernia diagnoses in U.S. military service members. Learn more about the findings of the study at Health.mil/MSMR

An abdominal hernia is an abnormal protrusion of an organ or tissue through a defect in the abdominal wall. This infographic provides information on incident diagnoses of the five types of abdominal hernia that were documented in health records of 72,404 active component service members from 1 January 2005 through 31 December 2014.

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