Risk of dementia in patients with non-haemorrhagic stroke receiving acupuncture treatment: a nationwide matched cohort study from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the risk of dementia in patients with stroke who did and did not receive acupuncture treatment.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

This study was based on Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database that included patients with stroke hospitalised between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2004.

Participants

We identified 11 220 patients aged 50 years and older with newly diagnosed stroke hospitalisation.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

We compared the incident dementia during the follow-up period until the end of 2009 in patients with stroke who did and did not receive acupuncture. The adjusted HRs and 95% CIs of dementia associated with acupuncture were calculated in multivariate Cox proportional hazard regre

SUBMITTER: Shih CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734214 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature