Risk of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide population-based case-control study.
OBJECTIVE: Type 2 diabetes is associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation and could potentially trigger the progression of other, more prominent inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Therefore, we aimed to investigate the risk of incident RA in Taiwanese patients with type 2 d...
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| author | Ming-Chi Lu Shih-Tang Yan Wen-Yao Yin Malcolm Koo Ning-Sheng Lai |
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| description | OBJECTIVE: Type 2 diabetes is associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation and could potentially trigger the progression of other, more prominent inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Therefore, we aimed to investigate the risk of incident RA in Taiwanese patients with type 2 diabetes using a population-based health claims database. METHODS: This nationwide, population-based, case-control study used administrative data to identify 1,416 patients with RA (age ≥20 years) as cases and 7,080 controls that were frequency-matched for sex, 10-year age group, and year of catastrophic illness certificate application date (index year). All subjects were retrospectively traced back, up to 13 years prior to the index year, for their first diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to quantify the association between incident RA and type 2 diabetes. RESULTS: The odds of developing RA were significantly higher in female (odds ratio [OR] 1.46, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] 1.24-1.72) but not in male (OR 1.00, 95% CI 0.72-1.37) patients who had previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Subgroup analysis indicated that the odds of developing RA were more prominent in younger females (20 to 44 years of age) with type 2 diabetes. In addition, the odds of developing RA in female patients with type 2 diabetes were higher in those with a shorter time interval between the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and RA. CONCLUSIONS: This large nationwide, population-based, case-control study showed an elevated risk of RA in female Taiwanese patients with type 2 diabetes. Our findings were consistent with the hypothesis that chronic low-grade inflammation in type 2 diabetes may elicit the development of RA in genetically susceptible individuals. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-3e6138c9b75340a69423ae7b88cc08122022-12-22T00:04:31ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032014-01-0197e10152810.1371/journal.pone.0101528Risk of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide population-based case-control study.Ming-Chi LuShih-Tang YanWen-Yao YinMalcolm KooNing-Sheng LaiOBJECTIVE: Type 2 diabetes is associated with chronic, low-grade inflammation and could potentially trigger the progression of other, more prominent inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Therefore, we aimed to investigate the risk of incident RA in Taiwanese patients with type 2 diabetes using a population-based health claims database. METHODS: This nationwide, population-based, case-control study used administrative data to identify 1,416 patients with RA (age ≥20 years) as cases and 7,080 controls that were frequency-matched for sex, 10-year age group, and year of catastrophic illness certificate application date (index year). All subjects were retrospectively traced back, up to 13 years prior to the index year, for their first diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Logistic regression analysis was conducted to quantify the association between incident RA and type 2 diabetes. RESULTS: The odds of developing RA were significantly higher in female (odds ratio [OR] 1.46, 95% confidence interval [95% CI] 1.24-1.72) but not in male (OR 1.00, 95% CI 0.72-1.37) patients who had previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Subgroup analysis indicated that the odds of developing RA were more prominent in younger females (20 to 44 years of age) with type 2 diabetes. In addition, the odds of developing RA in female patients with type 2 diabetes were higher in those with a shorter time interval between the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes and RA. CONCLUSIONS: This large nationwide, population-based, case-control study showed an elevated risk of RA in female Taiwanese patients with type 2 diabetes. Our findings were consistent with the hypothesis that chronic low-grade inflammation in type 2 diabetes may elicit the development of RA in genetically susceptible individuals.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4079714?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Ming-Chi Lu Shih-Tang Yan Wen-Yao Yin Malcolm Koo Ning-Sheng Lai Risk of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide population-based case-control study. PLoS ONE |
| title | Risk of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide population-based case-control study. |
| title_full | Risk of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide population-based case-control study. |
| title_fullStr | Risk of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide population-based case-control study. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Risk of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide population-based case-control study. |
| title_short | Risk of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with type 2 diabetes: a nationwide population-based case-control study. |
| title_sort | risk of rheumatoid arthritis in patients with type 2 diabetes a nationwide population based case control study |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4079714?pdf=render |
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