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Comparison of Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease Between Physicians and the General Population: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study

Physicians experience high stress and have much responsibility during a night shift, which contributes to increased sympathetic activity, the risk factor for renal disease. The risk for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in physicians is still unclear. Therefore, we conducted a nationwide population-bas...

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Autores principales: Yen, Chin-Kai, Tan, Tian-Hoe, Feng, I-Jung, Ho, Chung-Han, Hsu, Chien-Chin, Lin, Hung-Jung, Wang, Jhi-Joung, Huang, Chien-Cheng
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6617167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31234478
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16122211
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author Yen, Chin-Kai
Tan, Tian-Hoe
Feng, I-Jung
Ho, Chung-Han
Hsu, Chien-Chin
Lin, Hung-Jung
Wang, Jhi-Joung
Huang, Chien-Cheng
author_facet Yen, Chin-Kai
Tan, Tian-Hoe
Feng, I-Jung
Ho, Chung-Han
Hsu, Chien-Chin
Lin, Hung-Jung
Wang, Jhi-Joung
Huang, Chien-Cheng
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description Physicians experience high stress and have much responsibility during a night shift, which contributes to increased sympathetic activity, the risk factor for renal disease. The risk for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in physicians is still unclear. Therefore, we conducted a nationwide population-based cohort study to clarify this issue. Using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database, we identified 30,268 physicians and 60,536 individuals from the general population matched with a ratio of 1:2 by age and sex. All participants who had ESRD before 2006 and residents were excluded. ESRD risk between physicians and the general population and among physician subgroups was compared by following up their medical histories until 2012. We also compared the treatments between both cohorts with ESRD. Physicians had a lower ESRD risk than the general population (adjusted odds ratio (AOR): 0.5; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.4–0.7), particularly in the middle-age subgroup (35–64 years) (AOR: 0.4; 95% CI: 0.3–0.7); however, there was no difference in the older age subgroup (≥65 years) (AOR: 1.0; 95% CI: 0.6–1.7). More physicians received peritoneal dialysis (63.0% vs. 11.1%) and renal transplantation (5.6% vs. 1.7%) than the general population after being diagnosed with ESRD. Compared with the general population, physicians had a lower ESRD risk and higher treatment selection for peritoneal dialysis and renal transplantation after being diagnosed with ESRD. Better medical knowledge, a greater awareness of diseases and their risk factors, more rigorous implementation of preventive measures, and easy access to medical care may play a role in this aspect. Further studies are warranted for elucidating the associated mechanisms.
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spelling pubmed-66171672019-07-18 Comparison of Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease Between Physicians and the General Population: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study Yen, Chin-Kai Tan, Tian-Hoe Feng, I-Jung Ho, Chung-Han Hsu, Chien-Chin Lin, Hung-Jung Wang, Jhi-Joung Huang, Chien-Cheng Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Physicians experience high stress and have much responsibility during a night shift, which contributes to increased sympathetic activity, the risk factor for renal disease. The risk for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) in physicians is still unclear. Therefore, we conducted a nationwide population-based cohort study to clarify this issue. Using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database, we identified 30,268 physicians and 60,536 individuals from the general population matched with a ratio of 1:2 by age and sex. All participants who had ESRD before 2006 and residents were excluded. ESRD risk between physicians and the general population and among physician subgroups was compared by following up their medical histories until 2012. We also compared the treatments between both cohorts with ESRD. Physicians had a lower ESRD risk than the general population (adjusted odds ratio (AOR): 0.5; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.4–0.7), particularly in the middle-age subgroup (35–64 years) (AOR: 0.4; 95% CI: 0.3–0.7); however, there was no difference in the older age subgroup (≥65 years) (AOR: 1.0; 95% CI: 0.6–1.7). More physicians received peritoneal dialysis (63.0% vs. 11.1%) and renal transplantation (5.6% vs. 1.7%) than the general population after being diagnosed with ESRD. Compared with the general population, physicians had a lower ESRD risk and higher treatment selection for peritoneal dialysis and renal transplantation after being diagnosed with ESRD. Better medical knowledge, a greater awareness of diseases and their risk factors, more rigorous implementation of preventive measures, and easy access to medical care may play a role in this aspect. Further studies are warranted for elucidating the associated mechanisms. MDPI 2019-06-22 2019-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6617167/ /pubmed/31234478 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16122211 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Huang, Chien-Cheng
Comparison of Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease Between Physicians and the General Population: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study
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title_full_unstemmed Comparison of Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease Between Physicians and the General Population: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study
title_short Comparison of Risk for End-Stage Renal Disease Between Physicians and the General Population: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study
title_sort comparison of risk for end-stage renal disease between physicians and the general population: a nationwide population-based cohort study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6617167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31234478
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16122211
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