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Non-apnea sleep disorder and its risk for all kinds of injuries A 14-year follow-up for a nationwide population-based retrospective study

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MEDICINE
Volume 100, Issue 8, Pages -

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LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000024766

Keywords

injury; longitudinal health insurance database; national health insurance research database; non-apnea sleep disorder

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  1. Tri-Service General Hospital Research Foundation [TSGH-B-110012]

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The study revealed that patients with NASD are at higher risk for all causes of injuries, particularly among the elderly. Falls are the most prevalent cause of injury.
Non-apnea sleep disorder (NASD) increases the risk of motor vehicle accidents. However, systemic review of NASD and its risk for all causes of injury is lacking. The aim of the present study was to provide a detailed demographic data on NASD and all causes of injury in a 14-year follow up. Our study utilized outpatient and inpatient data from the Longitudinal Health Insurance Database between 2000 and 2013 in Taiwan. We enrolled 989,753 individuals aged >= 20 years who were diagnosed with NASD as outpatients >= 3 times or inpatients >= 1 time. We matched the study cohort with a comparison cohort by age, index date and comorbidities at a ratio of 1:4. We used Cox proportional hazards regression to analyze the association of NASD and the cause of injury. In this 14-year follow up study, patients with NASD had 12.96% increased risk of injury compared to that of the control cohort. Fall was the first place of the cause of injury with 670.26 per 10(5) PYs. In the stratified age group, patients aged >= 65 years had the highest risk of injury (adjusted HR= 1.381; P < .001). Kaplan-Meier analysis showed that the incidence of injury between the with- and without-NASD cohorts started from the first year and persisted until the end of the follow-up. Our study demonstrates that NASD patients were associated with higher risk of all causes of injuries, with falling being the most prevalent diagnosis. The general public should be more aware of this neglected issue of NASD.

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