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Table 2 Characteristics of the included studies-Part II

From: The risk of rheumatoid arthritis among patients with inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Study

Case

type

Sample (size (n)/Age range (years)/Male (%))

Adjusted RR

(95%CI)

Covariates adjustment

NOS

score

Cases

Controls

Aletaha-2019 [17]

IBD

68,535/18–64/NM

42,371,769/18–64/NM

3.5 (3.3–3.8)

Age, sex, region, and insurance

7

Bae-2017 [14]

IBD

40,843/All/60.2

122,529/All/60.2

3.41 (2.61–4.44)

Age, sex, and insurance

7

CD

12,646/All/69.1

3.74 (2.47–5.65)

UC

28,197/All/59.2

3.31 (2.49–4.40)

Burisch-2019 [16]

IBD

11,777/≥18/NM

1 for 5 matcheda

/≥18/NM

2.11 (1.66–2.67)

Age, sex

8

CD

NM/≥18/NM

3.59 (2.32–5.54)

UC

NM/≥18/NM

1.67 (1.21–2.30)

Cohen-2008-1 [13]

IBD

18,603/≥18/44.3

66,969/≥18/44.3

2.72 (2.43–3.04)

Age, sex, region, and insurance

7

CD

9267/≥18/43.0

37,068/≥18/43.0

2.76 (2.40–3.18)

UC

11,220/≥18/46.0

44,880/≥18/46.0

2.76 (2.40–3.18)

Cohen-2008-2 [13]

IBD

16,139/≥18/45.5

64,556/≥18/45.5

2.05 (1.84–2.29)

Age, sex, region, and insurance

7

CD

7404/≥18/42.7

29,604/≥18/42.7

2.37 (2.02–2.77)

UC

10,104/≥18/45.7

40,416/≥18/45.7

2.16 (1.88–2.49)

Halling-2017 [12]

IBD

47,325/All/46

92,839/All/46

1.8 (1.5–2.0)

Age, sex, and region

8

CD

13,343/All/42

26,172/All/42

2.1 (1.6–2.8)

UC

31,066/All/47

60,951/All/47

1.6 (1.3–1.9)

Kappelman-2011 [11]

IBD

1242/≤20/55

3353/≤20/54

9.6 (3.9–23.8)

Age, sex, and region

8

CD

737/≤20/56

1997/≤20/56

15.7 (4.6–53.7)

UC

488/≤20/53

1310/≤20/52

3.6 (0.8–16.1)

Park-2019 [15]

IBD

35,581/≤80/61.6

142,324/≤80/61.6

4.24 (3.25–5.52)

Age, sex

8

CD

11,803/≤80/70.9

47,212/≤80/70.9

5.59 (3.32–9.41)

UC

23,737/≤80/56.9

94,948/≤80/56.9

3.90 (2.86–5.32)

Puolakka-2014 [19]

RA

7209/≥17/32

NM/NM/NM

0.74 (0.51–1.03)

Age, sex

7

Kronzer-2019 [18]

RA

821/≥18/27

2455/≥18/27

3.82 (1.77–8.41)

Age, sex, region, race, BMI, education, smoking, CCI

6

Weng-2007 [10]

IBD

12,601/≤89/47.5

50,404/≤89/47.5

1.9 (1.5–2.3)

Age, sex, insurance, and smoking

9

CD

4021/≤89/44.1

1 for 4 matched/≤89/44.1

2.5 (1.8–3.5)

UC

7525/≤89/49.3

1 for 4 matched/≤89/49.3

1.5 (1.2–2.0)

Yang-2018 [9]

IBD

43,281/19–75/70.1

1,127,261/19–75/48.4

1.60 (1.52–1.68)

No

6

CD

13,925/19–75/63.5

1.47 (1.34–1.61)

UC

29,356/19–75/57.6

1.67 (1.57–1.77)

  1. BMI Body Mass Index, CCI Charlson Comorbidity Index, CD Crohn Disease, IBD Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, RA Rheumatoid Arthritis, RR Relative Risk, UC Ulcerative Colitis
  2. aThe sample size of CD and UC was not mentioned; however, each patient was paired with 5 age- and sex-matched 5 individuals from the general population