Acupuncture Decreased the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Patients with Osteoarthritis in Taiwan: A Nationwide Matched Cohort Study.

Autor:	Ton, Gil, Yang, Yu-Cih, Lee, Li-Wen, Ho, Wen-Chao, Chen, Yi-Hung, Yen, Hung-Rong, Lee, Yu-Chen
Předmět:	CORONARY heart disease risk factors OSTEOARTHRITIS treatment STATISTICS CONFIDENCE intervals NOSOLOGY ACUPUNCTURE STEROIDS ORAL drug administration MULTIVARIATE analysis ONE-way analysis of variance ECONOMIC status AGE distribution CORONARY disease CASE-control method MEDICAL care costs DISEASE incidence RISK assessment T-test (Statistics) SEX distribution CHI-squared test DESCRIPTIVE statistics RESEARCH funding STATISTICAL sampling STATISTICAL models RESIDENTIAL patterns PROPORTIONAL hazards models COMORBIDITY LONGITUDINAL method
Zdroj:	Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine; 2021 Supplement, Vol. 27, pS-60-S-70, 11p
Abstrakt:	Objectives: Patients with osteoarthritis (OA) are more likely to develop coronary heart disease (CHD) than the general population. Acupuncture is commonly used in OA patients; however, the therapeutic effect of acupuncture on the risk of CHD in patients with OA and the association between OA patients and their risk to develop CHD in Taiwan are unknown. We investigated the risk of CHD according to acupuncture use in OA patients and compared it with the general population. Design: Records obtained from Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database identified 84,773 patients with OA, which were compared with 727,359 patients without OA diagnosis. Five thousand forty-six of those who met study inclusion criteria had 1:1 frequency matching and were categorized as OA-acupuncture cohort (n = 1682), OA nonacupuncture cohort (n = 1682), and non-OA cohort (n = 1682). Cox proportional hazards regression analysis determined the risk of CHD, which was defined as the study main outcome. Therapeutic effects of acupuncture and medical expenditure were also analyzed. Results: OA nonacupuncture cohort had 3.04 higher risk to develop CHD compared with OA-acupuncture cohort (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.54–3.63, p < 0.001) and non-OA cohort had 1.88 higher risk to develop CHD compared with OA-acupuncture cohort (95% CI, 1.52–2.32, p < 0.001). In subgroup analyses, OA patients treated with both acupuncture and oral steroids were at significantly lower risk of CHD compared with those who used neither (adjusted hazard ratio 0.34; 95% CI, 0.22–0.53), and OA patients treated with acupuncture had the lowest medical expenditure in a follow-up time of 6 months, and 3 and 5 years. Conclusion: This is the first large-scale investigation in Taiwan that shows the association between OA and CHD and the beneficial effects of acupuncture in OA patients, and their associated risk to develop CHD. Our results may provide valuable information for health policy decision making. Further randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm these observational findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze:	Complementary Index
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