Higher risk of incident ankylosing spondylitis in patients with uveitis: a secondary cohort analysis of a nationwide, population-based health claims database

摘要: Objectives: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a progressive, systemic, inflammatory autoimmune disease that typically affects young adults. Uveitis common extra-articular manifestation of AS. Nevertheless, the magnitude risk AS among patients with uveitis not clear. The aim this secondary retrospective cohort study was to investigate incident in using data from nationwide, population-based health claims research database.Method: Using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database, we identified 6637 between 2000 and 2012. A comparison assembled, which consisted five without uveitis, based on frequency matching for gender, 10 year age interval, index year, each patient uveitis. Both groups were followed until diagnosis or end follow-up period. Poisson regression model used calculate incidence rate ratio c...