title: Risk of Peripheral Artery Disease in Patients With Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study.
abstract: Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning can cause several life-threatening complications, particularly in cardiovascular and neurological systems. However, no studies have been performed to investigate the association between peripheral artery disease (PAD) and CO poisoning. We constructed a population-based retrospective cohort study to clarify the risks between PAD and CO poisoning. This population-based cohort study involved analyzing data from 1998 to 2010 obtained from the Taiwanese National Health Insurance Research Database, with a follow-up period extending to the end of 2011. We identified patients with CO poisoning and selected a comparison cohort that was frequency matched according to age, sex, and year of diagnosis of CO poisoning at a ratio of 1 patient to 4 control patients. We analyzed the risks for patients with CO poisoning and PAD by using Cox proportional hazards regression models. In this study, 9046 patients with CO poisoning and 36,183 controls were included. The overall risks for developing PAD were 1.85-fold in the patients with CO poisoning compared with the comparison cohort after adjusting for age, sex, and comorbidities. Our long-term cohort study results showed a higher risk for PAD development among patients with CO poisoning.
authors.affiliation: From the Division of Hematology/Oncology (Y-GC, M-SD), Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine(T-YL), Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei (YH), Management Office for Health Data (C-LL), College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung (C-LL), Department of Nuclear Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, (W-SH), Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University (C-HK); and Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (C-HK).
authors.forename: Yu-Guang
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Te-Yu
authors.initials: TY
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Ming-Shen
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Dai
authors.forename: Cheng-Li
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hung
authors.forename: Wen-Sheng
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Chia-Hung
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Kao
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002249:Carbon Monoxide Poisoning / Q000150:complications*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D058729:Peripheral Arterial Disease / Q000209:etiology*; D016016:Proportional Hazards Models; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012306:Risk