Liver Governs Tendon: A Theory from Traditional Chinese Medicine—Evidence from a Population-Based Matched Cohort Study in Taiwan for the Association of Chronic Liver Disease and Common Diseases in the Chiropractic Office
Table 4
Incidence rates and hazard ratio for internal derangement of knee to HBV stratified by demographic factors.
Variables
HBV
Crude HR
Adjusted HR
No
Yes
()
()
Event
Person-years
IR
Event
Person-years
IR
(95% CI)
(95% CI)
Total
351
491356
0.71
25
30747
0.81
1.13 (0.76–1.7)
1.03 (0.69–1.55)
Sex
Female
103
159678
0.65
7
9709
0.72
1.1 (0.51–2.38)
1.01 (0.47–2.19)
Male
248
331677
0.75
18
21038
0.86
1.14 (0.71–1.84)
1.04 (0.64–1.67)
Age, years
18–39
233
316611
0.74
20
22038
0.91
1.23 (0.78–1.94)
1.15 (0.73–1.82)
40–64
105
162879
0.64
5
8353
0.60
0.93 (0.38–2.27)
0.8 (0.33–1.97)
More than 65
13
11865
1.10
0
355
0.00
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Major trauma
321
349749
0.92
24
24377
0.98
1.07 (0.71–1.62)
1.07 (0.7–1.61)
Anemic disorder
16
17101
0.94
4
2273
1.76
1.86 (0.62–5.56)
1.95 (0.64–5.89)
IR: incidence rates, per 1,000 person-years; HR: hazard ratio; CI: confidence interval. Adjusted HR: mutually adjusted for age, gender, and comorbidities in Cox proportional hazards regression.
