Citation

Liaw GW, Hung DZ, Chen WK, Lin CL, Lin IC, Kao CH. Medicine (Baltimore) 2015; 94(52): e2376.

Affiliation

From the Department of Emergency Medicine (G-WL, D-ZH, W-KC), China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan, Management Office for Health Data (C-LL), China Medical University Hospital, College of Medicine (C-LL), China Medical University, Taichung, Department of Family Medicine (I-CL), Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, School of Medicine (I-CL), Chung Shan Medical University, Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center (C-HK), China Medical University Hospital, Taichung; and Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Science (C-HK), College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taiwan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/MD.0000000000002376

PMID

26717383

Abstract

We designed a population-based retrospective cohort study to investigate the association between the event of benzodiazepine (BZD) poisoning and the risk of acute pancreatitis.In the present study, 12,893 patients with BZD poisoning during 2000 to 2011 were enrolled and matched with 4 comparison patients according to mean age and sex. We determined the cumulative incidences and adjusted hazard ratios of acute pancreatitis.A significant association was observed between BZD poisoning and acute pancreatitis. After adjustment for potential risk factors, the patients with BZD poisoning had a 5.33-fold increased risk of acute pancreatitis compared with the controls without BZD poisoning (HR = 5.33, 95% CI = 2.26-12.60). The results revealed that acute pancreatitis in patients with BZD poisoning occurred in a follow-up time of ≤1 month (HR = 50.0, P < .001), and the risk of acute pancreatitis was no different between the patients with and without BZD poisoning when the follow-up time was >1 month (HR = 1.07, P > .05).This population-based study revealed the positive correlation between the event of BZD poisoning and an increased risk of acute pancreatitis. The findings warrant further large-scale and in-depth investigation.

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