Acupuncture decreased the risk of coronary heart disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Taiwan: a Nationwide propensity score-matched study

Table 4 Cox model for coronary heart disease in patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving different types of acupuncture treatment vs. not receiving acupuncture treatment

	n	CHD (n = 2132)	Crude HR^*(95%CI)	Adjusted HR^† (95%CI)
No-acupuncture	9932	1223	1 (reference)	1 (reference)
Acupuncture
Manual acupuncture of TCM type	8614	819	0.67(0.62–0.74)***	0.64(0.58–0.69)***
Electroacupuncture	340	19	0.48(0.31–0.76)**	0.46(0.29–0.73)**
Combination of manual acupuncture and electroacupuncture	978	71	0.39(0.30–0.49)***	0.36(0.28–0.46)***

Abbreviations: HR, hazard ratio; CHD, coronary heart disease; CI, confidence interval; and TCM, traditional Chinese medicine
Crude HR^* represents relative hazard ratio. Adjusted HR^† represents adjusted hazard ratio mutually adjusted for age, sex, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, congestive heart failure, cerebral vascular diseases, depression, anxiety, alcoholism, tobacco dependence, obesity, Methotrexate, Hydroxychloroquine, Sulfasalazine, TNF-α inhibitors, oral steroids, NSAIDs and statins in Cox proportional hazard regression
**: p < 0.01; and ***: p < 0.001

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