Spinal cord injury and Alzheimer’s disease risk: a population-based, retrospective cohort study

• Published in: Spinal cord Vol. 56; no. 2; pp. 151 - 157
• Main Authors: Yeh, Tian-Shin, Ho, Yu-Chun, Hsu, Cherng-Lan, Pan, Shin-Liang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.02.2018; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: Alzheimer's disease; Anatomy; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Cohort analysis; Diagnosis; Health risk assessment; Health risks; Human Physiology; Incidence; Neurochemistry; Neurodegenerative diseases; Neuropsychology; Neurosciences; Patients; Population studies; Population-based studies; Risk; Spinal cord injuries

Study design Propensity score-matched, retrospective cohort study. Objectives To determine the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). Setting The present study used Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database. Methods A total of 9257 patients...