Open AccessRisk assessment of dementia after hysterectomy: Analysis of 14-year data from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan
Author(s) -
YiChun Chen,
Yen-Jen Oyang,
Tzu-Yun Lin,
WeiZen Sun
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of the chinese medical association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1728-7731
pISSN - 1726-4901
DOI - 10.1097/jcma.0000000000000286
Subject(s) - medicine , dementia , hazard ratio , hysterectomy , confidence interval , retrospective cohort study , proportional hazards model , database , surgery , disease , computer science
Anesthesia and surgery may increase the risk of dementia in the elderly, but the higher prevalence of dementia in women and other evidence suggest that dementia risk increases in younger women undergoing hysterectomy. In this study, we assessed the risk of dementia after hysterectomy.