[PDF] Top 20 Risk factors associated with infantile spasms: a hospital-based case-control study in Taiwan

... From a methodological viewpoint, our study design surpassed previous studies in several as- ...First, a hospital-based case-control study in our ... See full document

... S A AN ND D M ME ET TH HO OD DS S We conducted a case-control study at the China Medical University Hospital (CMUH) from 2001 to ...potential study subjects. Patients ... See full document

... cholelithiasis in Taiwan and in the West. There is a selection bias associated with each of these studies, however, due to the focus on a particular subgroup within the ... See full document

... was a population-based case-control ...the Taiwan National Health Insurance ...began in March 1995 and has covered approximately 99% of the whole Taiwan 23 million ... See full document

... observational study and the available ...patients with insomnia. The literature discloses that insomnia is associated with decreased immune function , which would further increase the ... See full document

... men in 1985 to 7.2 per 10 5 in 1995, with mortality rates of ...increasing risk for men in Tai- wan. 4,7,22 Potential factors contributing to the in- creased incidence are ... See full document

... this study must be considered. Our study involves a small sample and has a limited power of test, a common drawback of single studies in low-incidence ...This study also ... See full document

... present study was to investigate whether individuals taking statins are at reduced risk of CCA using the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) of ...relationship with statins was ... See full document

... suggest a triggering role for enteroviruses, such as coxsackievirus B4 (CV-B4), in the development of ...19 In addition to enteroviruses, neonatal infections, eczema and rhinitis during infancy were ... See full document

... Dutch study was therefore also relatively lim- ...atorvastatin in Taiwan. Th e results of the Dutch study cannot be generalized to the use of other statins because of its relatively high ... See full document

... this study was to examine the relationship between chronic osteomyelitis and acute pancreatitis in ...was a population-based case-control study utilizing the database of ... See full document

... association with DM (OR 0.99, 95% CI 0.71-1.37), but significantly associated with alcoholism (OR ...elevated risk of esophageal cancer appeared in DM patients taking ... See full document

... is a major public health problem due to its high prevalence and heavy socioeconomic ...million) in the world in ...multiple risk factors are associated with pulmonary ... See full document

... this study found that male, ageing, low income, hyperuricemia and lack of exercise habits were risk factors for ...CKD in patients with or without HTN were ...be associated ... See full document

... Despite a meticulous study design with adequate control of confounding factors, a key limitation of this study is that bias could remain if unmeasured or unknown ... See full document

... correlate with increased risk of esophageal cancer (OR ...potential risk of esophageal cancer when patients present with esophageal ...are a number of limitations in this ...is ... See full document

... our study may be the first population-based case-control study to demonstrate a significant association between celecoxib and acute ...Compared with previous studies, our ... See full document

... included in the study. This present study has some limitations inherent to the ...recorded in this database. Some risk factors of pancreatic cancer, such as obesity and cigarette ... See full document

... of Study Subject Characteristics Comorbidities or coexisting medications that might interact with the risk of fractures were adjusted ...confounding factors with potential to change ... See full document

... elucidated in this observational study, even after searching thoroughly, no case report or no relevant literature about the possible cause-effect relationship between digoxin use and acute ... See full document