The association between tinnitus and the risk of ischemic cerebrovascular disease in young and middle-aged patients: A secondary case-control analysis of a nationwide, population-based health claims database

• Yung-Sung Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yung-Sung Huang, Malcolm Koo

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

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

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• Malcolm Koo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yung-Sung Huang, Malcolm Koo

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Dalin, Chiayi, Taiwan, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Jin-Cherng Chen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Neurosurgery, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Dalin, Chiayi, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien City, Taiwan

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• Juen-Haur Hwang

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: juenhaur@ms96.url.com.tw

  Affiliations School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien City, Taiwan, Department of Otolaryngology, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Dalin, Chiayi, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1873-2472

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