Risk of motor vehicle accidents with profound injuries in patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a nationwide, population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) suffer from impaired physical activity and are prone to motor vehicle accidents (MVA), but definite instruction regarding the relationship between disease evolvement and MVA and potential risk factors is lacking.

Objectives

To explore the risk factors and their impact on recorded MVA with profound injuries in AS patients with prescriptions.

Design

Nationwide, population-based, matched retrospective cohort study.

Methods

Using Taiwanese administrative healthcare databases, with available claims data from 2003 to 2013, we selected 30,911 newly diagnosed adult AS patients with concurrent prescriptions from 2006 to 2012 as AS patients, along with 309,110 non-AS individuals as the control group, matched in gender,

SUBMITTER: Kao CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11418241 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature