Association between opioid use disorder and fractures: a population‐based study

• Published in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) Vol. 114; no. 11; pp. 2008 - 2015
• Main Authors: Hsu, Wen‐Yu, Lin, Cheng‐Li, Kao, Chia‐Hung
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2019
• Subjects: Alcohol; Bone; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Classification; Cohort analysis; Congestive heart failure; Coronary artery disease; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Drug addiction; fracture; Fractures; Geriatrics; Health risk assessment; Heart failure; Hyperlipidemia; Kidney diseases; Lung diseases; Narcotics; National health insurance; National Health Insurance Research Database; Obesity; Obstructive lung disease; Older people; Opioid Use Disorder; Opioids; Osteoporosis; Population studies; Population-based studies; retrospective cohort study; Rheumatoid arthritis; risk; Risk factors; Substance use disorder; Taiwan; retrospective cohort study; National Health Insurance Research Database; risk; Bone; Opioid Use Disorder; fracture

Aims To test whether fractures and osteoporosis are more prevalent among patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) than patients without OUD in Taiwan. Design We conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from the National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) in Taiwan. Setting Taiwan. Pa...