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 8

Cox proportional hazard regression analysis for the risk of internal derangement of knee-associated chronic liver disease with comorbidity.

Variables		Event	Person-years	Rate	Adjusted HR
					(95% CI)
Chronic liver disease	Major trauma
No	No	38	142110	0.27	1 (reference)
No	Yes	319	348970	0.91	3.42 (2.44–4.79)
Yes	No	9	25927	0.35	1.27 (0.62–2.63)
Yes	Yes	116	98409	1.18	4.30 (2.98–6.21)
Chronic liver disease	Anemic disorder
No	No	344	473764	0.73	1 (reference)
No	Yes	13	17316	0.75	1.03 (0.59–1.81)
Yes	No	103	114622	0.90	1.15 (0.93–1.44)
Yes	Yes	22	9713.5	2.26	2.90 (1.87–4.49)

Adjusted HR: mutually adjusted for age, gender, and comorbidities in Cox proportional hazards regression.
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