1. Depression increases the risk of rotator cuff tear and rotator cuff repair surgery: A nationwide population-based study.
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Kuo, Liang-Tseng, Chen, Hong-Ming, Yu, Pei-An, Chen, Chi-Lung, Hsu, Wei-Hsiu, Tsai, Yao-Hung, Chen, Ko-Jung, and Chen, Vincent Chin-Hung
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ROTATOR cuff , *SURGERY , *SURGICAL robots , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *LONGITUDINAL method - Abstract
Background: Chronic inflammation is known to be associated with both rotator cuff tears (RCTs) and depression. However, no epidemiological studies with a longitudinal follow-up have been performed to prove this association. We aimed to investigate whether depressed patients had an elevated risk of RCT and subsequent repair surgery compared with those without depression. Methods: This retrospective cohort study comprised of patients diagnosed with depression between 2000 and 2010 (depression cohort) and patients without depression (non-depression cohort, 1:2 age and sex matched). The risk of RCT and rotator cuff repair surgery were determined during a 13-year follow-up (2000–2013) between these two cohorts. Results: This study included 26,868 patients with depression and 53,736 patients without depression. The incidence of RCT was 648 and 438 per 100,000 person-years in the depression and non-depression cohorts, respectively. The adjusted hazard ratio (HR) was 1.46 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.36–1.57) for depressed patients. The incidence of rotator cuff repair surgery was 28 and 18 per 100,000 person-years in the depression and non-depression cohorts, respectively. Depressed patients also had a significantly increased risk of subsequent rotator cuff repair surgery (adjusted HR = 1.46; 95% CI, 1.04–2.06). Conclusion: The present study showed that depression was associated with an i ncreased risk of rotator cuff tear and rotator cuff repair surgery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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