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... be a new strategy for stroke ...limitations of this study. First, the patients’ medical histories were only traced back to 1996, the year the LHID was ...established. ... See full document

... allergic disease in which systemic inflammation involves more than just the ...shown a strong association between dermatitis and ...accelerate the progression of atherosclerosis ... See full document

... OBJECTIVE: This study used a population-based dataset to determine whether (compared with vaginal deliveries), cesarean section deliveries increase the risk of postpartum stroke during[r] ... See full document

... released a cohort dataset of 1,000,000 randomly sampled people and confirmed it to be representative of the Taiwanese ...time of enrollment, age, gender, hypertension, ... See full document

... is the first nationwide population-based cohort study to investigate the associations between pneumoconiosis and ...failure, stroke, COPD, asthma, and CKD, ... See full document

... and stroke was suggested in an animal study of squirrel monkeys: a regular ingestion of small concentrations of alcohol increased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ... See full document

... our nationwide study showed that patients on chronic dialysis had a high risk of hemorrhagic ...stroke. The factors associated with ICH occurrence and ... See full document

... is a disorder often unrecognized and untreated. The depression cohort identified in this study may not represent the average mild ‘‘depressive’’ persons and may reflect a ... See full document

... Material and methods In total, 59,548 adult patients newly diagnosed with sleep disturbance and who used zolpidem were recruited as the study cohort, along with 42,171 subjects who did not use ... See full document

... 日 The Association of Periodontal Disease and Osteoporosis: A Nationwide Population-Based Study Pei-Chieh Ko 1 ; Yung-Po Liaw 1 ; Jing-Yang Huang 1 ; Hsun-Pi ... See full document

... conducted a meta-analysis and categorized cancer types into smoking-related and non-smoking related ...although the decreased risk of cancer was more substantial for ... See full document

... launched a NHI in 1995, operated by a single buyer, the ...specialists and peer review should scrutinize all insurance claims. The diagnoses were based on the ... See full document

... have a poorer recovery of sensorimotor 29 and upper-extremity 30 ...documented the risks accompanying the use of diazepam and certain other medications by people who have ... See full document

... age, and comorbidities. Nevertheless, this study has ...First, the principal concern is the degree of accuracy in coding the HP-I and ...status, and family history, ... See full document

... diverticular disease, such as bleeding, perforation, obstruction, and fistula formation, because there are no specific diagnostic codes for these ...Fourth, the inpatient data set and registry ... See full document

... on the immune susceptibility of individuals instead of the frequency of sexual ...hypertension and other metabolic factors, such as central obesity and diabetes, ... See full document

... this study has limitations. First, the principal concern is the degree of accuracy in coding the HP-I and ...history and Cag-A strains are not available in ... See full document

... one of the most common infectious morbidity in chronic kidney disease (CKD) ...event and mortality . Pneumonia related mortality rate of CKD patients is 14 to 16 fold higher than that ... See full document

... for a difference in risk by gender. This study has several ...First, the NHIRD does not contain detailed information regarding patients' current use of medications, smoking habits, ... See full document

... The study cohort consisted of 9,985 newly diagnosed TB patients and 39,938 non-TB ...controls. The mean ages (± standard deviation) of the non-TB and TB cohorts ... See full document