Stroke Rate Increases Around the Time of Cancer Diagnosis.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To test whether strokes increase around the time of cancer diagnosis, we comprehensively examined the correlations of cancer and stroke by employing a population-based cohort study design. Methods: One million people insured under the Taiwan's National Health Insurance program in 2005 were randomly sampled to create the study's dataset. According to the presence of cancer and/or stroke, patients were separated into cancer and stroke, cancer-only, and stroke-only groups. Diagnoses of cancer, stroke, and comorbidities were defined according to ICD9-CM codes. Cancer and non-cancer populations were matched by age at cancer diagnosis, gender, and stroke risk factors, and each patient with cancer was matched with two non-cancer controls nested in the same year of cancer

SUBMITTER: Wei YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6566310 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature