Editing Hernia (section)

==Epidemiology==
About 27% of males and 3% of females develop a groin hernia at some time in their lives.<ref name="NEJM15" /> In 2013 about 25 million people had a hernia.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Vos T, Barber RM, Bell B, Bertozzi-Villa A, Biryukov S, Bolliger I, etal |date=August 2015 |title=Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 |journal=Lancet |volume=386 |issue=9995 |pages=743–800 |doi=10.1016/s0140-6736(15)60692-4 |pmc=4561509 |pmid=26063472 |collaboration=Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Collaborators}}</ref> Inguinal, femoral and abdominal hernias resulted in 32,500 deaths globally in 2013 and 50,500 in 1990.<ref name="GDB2013">{{cite journal |vauthors=Naghavi M, Wang H, Lozano R, Davis A, Liang X, Zhou M, etal |date=January 2015 |title=Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 |journal=Lancet |volume=385 |issue=9963 |pages=117–71 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61682-2 |pmc=4340604 |pmid=25530442 |collaboration=GBD 2013 Mortality and Causes of Death Collaborators}}</ref> Healthcare costs associated with abdominal wall hernias account for an annual expenditure of approximately 2.5 to 3 billion dollars.<ref>Park AE, Roth JS, Kavic SM. Abdominal wall hernia. Curr Probl Surg. 2006 May;43(5):326-75. doi: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2006.02.004. PMID 16679124.</ref>