ArticleSpinal cord2025
Increased risk of osteoarthritis in persons with spinal cord injury: a population-based longitudinal follow-up study in Taiwan.
Article in Spinal cord, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Postoperative gait training using the Hybrid Assistive Limb for pediatric spinal intramedullary cavernous malformation: illustrative case.Journal of neurosurgery. Case lessons · 2026Article
- Reply to the comment on "increased risk of osteoarthritis in persons with spinal cord injury: a population-based longitudinal follow-up study in Taiwan".Spinal cord · 2026Article
- Comment on 'Increased risk of osteoarthritis in persons with spinal cord injury: a population-based longitudinal follow-up study in Taiwan'.Spinal cord · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
STUDY
designRetrospective cohort study.
objectivesTo assess the relative risk of osteoarthritis (OA) in individuals with newly diagnosed spinal cord injury (SCI) compared to a matched non-SCI group.
settingTaiwan's Longitudinal Health Insurance Database.
methodsWe identified 1373 individuals aged 20-69 years with newly diagnosed SCI between 2002 and 2005 as the SCI group. A propensity-score-matched non-SCI group (N = 5492) with similar baseline demographic and clinical characteristics was selected for comparison. Both groups were followed until December 2011. OA-free survival was analyzed via Kaplan-Meier curves, and the association between SCI and OA risk was evaluated via stratified Cox proportional-hazards regression. To assess temporal risk variations, we performed landmark analysis with a 1-year cutoff, dividing follow-up into early (0-1 year) and long-term (≥1 year) periods.
resultsThe respective incidence rates of OA for the SCI and non-SCI groups were 45.4 per 1000 person-years (95% confidence interval [CI], 40.1-50.1) and 31.6 per 1000 person-years (95% CI, 29.8-33.4). The hazard ratio of OA for the SCI group, as compared to the non-SCI group, was 1.52 (95% CI 1.34-1.72, p < 0.0001).
conclusionsThis population-based longitudinal follow-up study indicates that there is an increased long-term risk of OA in persons with SCI, underscoring the need for clinical vigilance and early diagnostic measures in this population. Further research is needed to explore the mechanisms underlying the association between these two conditions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
40783463What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.