Relative risk of end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis in treated ankylosing spondylitis patients compared with individuals without ankylosing spondylitis: A nationwide, population-based, matched-cohort study

• Hsin-Hua Chen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shc5555@hotmail.com (HHC); sjweng@thu.edu.tw (SJW)

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong-Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, School of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health and Community Medicine Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7304-4587

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• Ching-Heng Lin,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Software

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Healthcare Management, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Kuo-Lung Lai,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Tsu-Yi Hsieh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, College of Business, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, Department of Medical Education, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Yi-Ming Chen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Medical Research, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Institute of Biomedical Science and Rong-Hsing Research Center for Translational Medicine, Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Chih-Wei Tseng,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Donald F. Gotcher,

  Roles Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Department of International Business, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Yu-Mei Chang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Statistics, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Chuang-Chun Chiou,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Shih-Chia Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

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• Shao-Jen Weng

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shc5555@hotmail.com (HHC); sjweng@thu.edu.tw (SJW)

  Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Information, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan

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