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SUBMITTER: Lin YC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6998364 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Yi-Chang YC Chen Tien-Yu TY Chien Wu-Chien WC Chung Chi-Hsiang CH Chang Hsin-An HA Kao Yu-Chen YC Tsai Chien-Sung CS Lin Chih-Sheng CS Tzeng Nian-Shen NS
BMC pulmonary medicine 20200203 1
<h4>Background</h4>The risk of injury directly related to hospitalization for motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) in the obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients has not been thoroughly understood. Our study aimed to examine the association between the OSA and the hospitalization for an MVA injury.<h4>Methods</h4>This retrospective cohort study used Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD) between 2000 and 2015. The OSA patients aged ≥20 years by age, sex, and index-year matched by ...[more]