Association of epilepsy and asthma: a population-based retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Epidemiologic data supporting the epilepsy-asthma association are insufficient. Therefore, we examined this association in this study.

Methods

By using claims data from the National Health Insurance Research Database (Taiwan), we executed a retrospective cohort analysis. Analysis 1 entailed comparing 150,827 patients diagnosed as having incident asthma during 1996-2013 with disease-free controls who were selected randomly during the same period, frequency matched in terms of age and sex. Similarly, analysis 2 entailed comparing 25,274 patients newly diagnosed as having epilepsy with sex- and age-matched controls who were selected randomly. At the end of 2013, we evaluated in analysis 1 the epilepsy incidence and risk and evaluated in analysis 2 the asthma incidenc

SUBMITTER: Chiang KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5961633 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature