Depressive disorder and elevated risk of bell’s palsy: a nationwide propensity score-weighting study

BMC Psychiatry

Table 4 Hazard ratios (HRs), and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for following Bell’s palsy among the sampled patients, stratified by different subgroups

Variables	Propensity score-weighted Cox proportional hazards model
Variables	Crude IPTW-HR	95% CI	P value	Adjusted IPTW-HR^a	95% CI^a	P value
Age
Adult (20–64)	1.386	1.217–1.579	< 0.0001	1.370	1.203–1.560	< 0.0001
Elders (≥ 65)	1.079	0.804–1.448	0.613	1.091	0.813–1.464	0.5609
Sex
Women	1.421	1.204–1.677	< 0.0001	1.415	1.198–1.670	< 0.0001
Men	1.239	1.045–1.469	0.0139	1.225	1.032–1.452	0.020

Notes: Hazard ratio, HR; inverse probability of treatment weighting; IPTW; ^a Adjusted for age, sex, region, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, herpes simplex virus, meningitis, head injury, obesity, tobacco use disorder, and alcoholism

ISSN: 1471-244X