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SUBMITTER: Wu XF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5797247 | biostudies-other | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Wu Xue-Fen XF Huang Jing-Yang JY Chiou Jeng-Yuan JY Chen Huang-Hsi HH Wei James Cheng-Chung JC Dong Ling-Li LL
Scientific reports 20180202 1
To investigate the association between primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) and coronary heart disease (CHD), and the influence of medications for pSS patients on risk of CHD. The authors identified 4175 patients with a new diagnosis of pSS between 2002 and 2013 from the National Health Insurance Research database. The control-to-case ratio was 4:1. The risk and cumulative incidences of CHD were calculated. The adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of CHD for pSS patients was 1.17 (1.03-1.34) after adjusting f ...[more]