[PDF] Top 20 Hashimoto's Thyroiditis, Risk of Coronary Heart Disease, and l-Thyroxine Treatment: A Nationwide Cohort Study.

... Subjects and Methods Data source The National Health Insurance (NHI) program in Taiwan was established on March 1, ...99% of the island’s population receives all forms of healthcare service, ... See full document

... MSc, and Chia-Hung Kao, MD INTRODUCTION A ccording to a World Health Organization study of 245,400 patients with chronic physical diseases in 60 countries, 1 the 1-year prevalence ... See full document

... incidence of individual cancers is of low meaning because of small number of ...events. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is a rare disease with an incidence of ... See full document

... results of the current study indicated that, after adjustment for potential confounding factors, patients with hip fracture exhibited a risk of developing CHD that was ...that of ... See full document

... as a low socioeconomic class, old age, and smoking, primarily modifiable risk factors, such as hyperlipidemia, hypertension, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome, or non-modifiable risk ... See full document

... database, and preventive medication for US-diagnosed patients might interfere with the possible relationship between US and ...design and adequate control of confounding factors, a ... See full document

... development of ACS. 3 4 Cerebrovascular accidents (CVAs) and cardiovascular diseases share similar risk factors in circulatory system ...pulmonary disease (COPD) associated with reduced lung ... See full document

... distress and social stigma, TB also causes disease-related health problems, 9 such as exudative, proliferative and productive infl ammation, involving cytokines, chemokines and transcription ... See full document

... infection and atherosclerosisinduced coronary heart disease has increased; 5–9 for example, Iriz et ...colonization of chlamydia pneumoniae infection resulted in the progression ... See full document

... This study is the frst to address the long-term risk of ACS in Asian patients with ...population-based cohort study demonstrates that the patients with IBD have an adjusted HR of ... See full document

... morbidity and mortality despite advances in treatment. 9 The ACS risk factors are similar to those for stroke, and include older age, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, DM, cigarette smoking, ... See full document

... This study had several ...effects of various risk factors due to correlation among these risk ...as a classification tree may provide another way to handle dependency and ... See full document

... depression and ACS diagnosis were highly ...psychiatrists and cardiologists should respect the link between depression and ...blockers and antidepressants, other than tricyclics, should be ... See full document

... IS a psychiatric illness that afflicts a significant portion of the population in all countries, and is more common among Taiwanese people than what has been previously ...depression ... See full document

... lipids, and vitamin D, suggest that calcified atherosclerosis is not a passive deposition, but a highly organized process that is regulated by mechanisms similar to those involved in bone ...be ... See full document

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

... current study. First, we could not exclude the possibility of other coexistent vascular risk factors, such as altered immunity, reduced physical activities and medications for COM, which might ... See full document

... node and enhanced heart rate variability (45, 46) may incur the risk of ...strengths of this study warrant mention. First, the study data source, Taiwan’s NHIRD ... See full document

... lack of the individual data of the severity of ICH and CAD, functional status after traumatic ICH, and outcomes with ICH and CAD; the medication compliance could not be evaluated ... See full document

... variables and the Student’s t-test for the continuous ...incidence of asthma, and a log-rank test was used to test the differences between the two ...the risk of asthma ... See full document