title: Traumatic Brain Injury and Substance Related Disorder: A 10-Year Nationwide Cohort Study in Taiwan.
abstract: Whether traumatic brain injury (TBI) is causally related to substance related disorder (SRD) is still debatable, especially in persons with no history of mental disorders at the time of injury. This study analyzed data in the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database for 19,109 patients aged ≥18 years who had been diagnosed with TBI during 2000-2010. An additional 19,109 randomly selected age and gender matched patients without TBI (1 : 1 ratio) were enrolled in the control group. The relationship between TBI and SRD was estimated with Cox proportional hazard regression models. During the follow-up period, SRD developed in 340 patients in the TBI group and in 118 patients in the control group. After controlling for covariates, the overall incidence of SRD was 3.62-fold higher in the TBI group compared to the control group. Additionally, patients in the severe TBI subgroup were 9.01 times more likely to have SRD compared to controls. Notably, patients in the TBI group were prone to alcohol related disorders. The data in this study indicate that TBI is significantly associated with the subsequent risk of SRD. Physicians treating patients with TBI should be alert to this association to prevent the occurrence of adverse events.
authors: Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan; Department of Neurosurgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan.
authors: Chieh-Hsin
authors: CH
authors: Wu
authors: Department of Neurosurgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan.
authors: Tai-Hsin
authors: TH
authors: Tsai
authors: Department of Neurosurgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan.
authors: Yu-Feng
authors: 0000-0003-0355-3981
authors: YF
authors: Su
authors: Department of Neurosurgery, The No. 7 People's Hospital of Hebei Province, Dingzhou, Hebei 073000, China.
authors: Zi-Hao
authors: ZH
authors: Zhang
authors: Department of Neurosurgery, Yucheng People's Hospital, Yucheng, Shandong 251200, China.
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Liu
authors: Department of Psychiatry, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan.
authors: Ming-Kung
authors: MK
authors: Wu
authors: Department of Neurosurgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan.
authors: Chih-Hui
authors: CH
authors: Chang
authors: Department of Neurosurgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan.
authors: Keng-Liang
authors: KL
authors: Kuo
authors: Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan; Department of Dermatology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan; Cosmetic Applications and Management Department, Yuh-Ing Junior College of Health Care & Management, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan.
authors: Ying-Yi
authors: 0000-0002-3266-4456
authors: YY
authors: Lu
authors: Graduate Institute of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan; Department of Neurosurgery, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan; Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan.
authors: Chih-Lung
authors: 0000-0002-6716-2771
authors: CL
authors: Lin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000070642:Brain Injuries, Traumatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015331:Cohort Studies; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013624:Taiwan / Q000453:epidemiology