Studies from National Taiwan University Hospital Provide New Data on Stroke (Polycystic kidney disease increases the stoke incidence in Taiwan: A retrospective population-based cohort study using National Health Insurance DatabaseAt a glance of …): Cerebrovascular Diseases and Conditions – Stroke

2022 NOV 24 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Business Daily -- New study results on stroke have been published. According to news reporting from Taipei, Taiwan, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Few studies documented incidence rates of different types of stroke among patients with polycystic kidney disease (PKD). We conducted a retrospective cohort study based on the National Health Insurance (NHI) Database of Taiwan.”

Funders for this research include National Health Research Institutes.

Our news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from National Taiwan University Hospital: “The PKD cohort comprised patients aged 20 years diagnosed with PKD using inpatient claims from 1998 to 2011, excluding prior stroke. The reference cohort was established by inpatients without PKD using 1:4 frequency-matched with age, gender, and baseline comorbidities. The two cohorts were followed-up until stroke hospitalization, death, withdrawal from the NHI program, or the end of 2012. To account for competing risks of death, we used multivariable competing risks regression models to estimate sub-distribution hazard ratio (SHR) adjusted for age, gender, baseline comorbidities and end stage renal disease. 7837 PKD patients and 31,211 reference subjects were followed up through 2012. A total of 955 cases of stroke were identified in the PKD cohort, including 441 ischemic stroke (IS), 289 intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), 73 subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and 232 other stroke. The incidence rates of overall stroke, IS, ICH, and SAH were 21.3, 10.2, 6.8, and 1.7 per 1000 person-years, respectively. The SHR for overall stroke was 1.39 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.28-1.50]. SAH had the highest SHR, 4.55 [95% CI 3.26-6.37], followed by ICH (1.84), other stroke (1.24), and IS (1.22).”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “This study illustrated the incidence rates of stroke among inpatient of PKD. The PKD patients had a significantly increased risk of all kinds of stroke after adjusting baseline comorbidities.”

For more information on this research see: Polycystic kidney disease increases the stoke incidence in Taiwan: A retrospective population-based cohort study using National Health Insurance DatabaseAt a glance of commentary. Biomedical Journal, 2022,45(5):806-813. (Biomedical Journal - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/biomedical-journal). The publisher for Biomedical Journal is Elsevier.

A free version of this journal article is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bj.2021.10.005.

Our news editors report that more information may be obtained by contacting Li-Kai Tsai, Department of Neurology and Stroke Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Additional authors for this research include Lukas Jyuhn-Hsiarn Lee, Yu-Yin Chang, Jung-Der Wang, Juliana Tze-Wah Kao.

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