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 5
Incidence rates and hazard ratio for internal derangement of knee to HCV stratified by demographic factors.
Variables
HCV
Crude HR
Adjusted HR
No
Yes
()
()
Event
Person-years
IR
Event
Person-years
IR
(95% CI)
(95% CI)
Total
351
491356
0.71
6
6117
0.98
1.38 (0.62–3.09)
1.21 (0.54–2.71)
Sex
Female
103
159678
0.65
1
1849
0.54
0.85 (0.12–6.06)
0.75 (0.1–5.37)
Male
248
331677
0.75
5
4268
1.17
1.57 (0.65–3.81)
1.35 (0.56–3.3)
Age, years
18–39
233
316611
0.74
3
3074
0.98
1.33 (0.43–4.16)
1.22 (0.39–3.8)
40–64
105
162879
0.64
3
2779
1.08
1.68 (0.53–5.29)
1.42 (0.45–4.5)
More than 65
13
11865
1.10
0
263
0.00
—
—
Major trauma
321
349749
0.92
4
5018
0.80
0.87 (0.33–2.34)
0.85 (0.32–2.28)
Anemic disorder
16
17101
0.94
0
676
0.00
—
—
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.
