کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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6212952 | 1605977 | 2016 | 4 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
ObjectivesThe study aimed to estimate the risk of developing chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) among children who had undergone a tonsillectomy by utilizing a cohort study based on a population-based database.MethodsData for this retrospective cohort study were sourced from the Taiwan ”Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2000”. We included 202 children who had undergone a tonsillectomy as the study group and 2020 sex- and age-matched children as the comparison group. We used stratified Cox proportional hazard regressions to calculate the hazard ratio (HR) and its corresponding 95% confidence interval (CI) for CRS during the 3-year follow-up period.ResultsOf 2222 sampled children, the incidence rate of CRS during the 3-year follow-up period was 3.2 (95% CIÂ =Â 2.0-4.8) 1000 person-years; 18.2 (95% CIÂ =Â 9.1-32.5) per 1000 person-years and 1.7 (95% CIÂ =Â 0.8-3.0) per 1000 person-years for the study and comparison group, respectively. The stratified Cox proportional analysis showed that the adjusted hazard ratio for CRS during the 3-year follow-up period was 8.28 (95% CIÂ =Â 3.24-21.16) for children who had undergone a tonsillectomy than comparison patients.ConclusionsWe demonstrated that the risk of developing CRS is significantly increased among children who have undergone a tonsillectomy.
Journal: International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology - Volume 91, December 2016, Pages 82-85