Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty Have a Lower Risk of Subsequent Severe Cardiovascular Events: Propensity Score and Instrumental Variable Analysis

• Wen-Yan Lin ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Yan Lin, Ching-Chih Lee

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan

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• Ching-Chih Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wen-Yan Lin, Ching-Chih Lee

  Affiliations Department of Otolaryngology, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, Department of Education, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan

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• Chia-Wen Hsu,

  Affiliation Department of Medical Research, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

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• Kuang-Yung Huang,

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, Department of Life Science and Institute of Molecular Biology, National Chung Cheung University, Chiayi, Taiwan

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• Shaw-Ruey Lyu

  * E-mail: srlyu@seed.net.tw

  Affiliations Department of Education, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualian, Taiwan, Joint Center, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chiayi, Taiwan

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