Association of traditional Chinese medicine therapy and the risk of dementia in patients with hypertension: a nationwide population-based cohort study

Table 2 Risk of dementia for HTN subjects with and without TCM

Patient group	Event	PYs	Incidence	Crude HR (95% CI)	Adjusted HR^a (95% CI)
Non-TCM users	10,316	892,960.27	11.55	1	1
TCM users	3933	467,500.55	8.41	0.73(0.71–0.76)	0.76 (0.74–0.81)
TCM use within 30–180 days	2706	289,829.43	9.34	0.82 (0.78–0.85)	0.86 (0.82–0.90)
TCM use for more than 180 days	1277	177,671.13	6.91	0.60 (0.57–0.64)	0.65 (0.62–0.69)

TCM Traditional Chinese Medicine, PYs per 1000 person-years, HR hazard ratio, CI confidence interval
^aModel adjusted for age, gender, urbanization level, monthly income, and CCI scores

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