Are Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease at an Increased Risk of Developing SARS-CoV-2 than Patients Without Inflammatory Bowel Disease? Results From a Nationwide Veterans' Affairs Cohort Study.
Am J Gastroenterol
; 116(4): 808-810, 2021 04.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-881531
ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION:
The clinic course of SARS-CoV-2 among patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has been extensively studied. However, there is a paucity of data on whether patients with IBD have an increased risk of developing SARS-CoV-2 with compared with patients without IBD.METHODS:
We conducted a nationwide retrospective cohort study in the US Veterans' Affairs healthcare system from January 1, 2020, to June 30, 2020. We matched each patient with IBD with 2 patients without IBD on age, sex, race, location, and comorbidities. The outcome of interest was development of SARS-CoV-2.RESULTS:
Among 38,378 patients with IBD and 67,433 patients without IBD, 87 (0.23%) and 132 (0.20%) patients developed incident SARS-CoV-2 infection, respectively (P = 0.29).DISCUSSION:
Patients with IBD are not at a significantly increased risk of developing SARS-CoV-2 infection when compared with patients without IBD.
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Am J Gastroenterol
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
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