Increased risk of stroke among patients with ankylosing spondylitis: a population-based matched-cohort study

• Published in: Rheumatology international Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 255 - 263
• Main Authors: Keller, Joseph J., Hsu, Jung-Lung, Lin, Shiue-Ming, Chou, Chia-Chi, Wang, Li-Hsuan, Wang, Jui, Bai, Chyi-Huey, Chiou, Hung-Yi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.02.2014; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adult; Anti-Inflammatory Agents - therapeutic use; Case-Control Studies; Chi-Square Distribution; Comorbidity; Disease-Free Survival; Drug Prescriptions; Female; Humans; Incidence; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Multivariate Analysis; Original Article; Proportional Hazards Models; Rheumatology; Risk Assessment; Risk Factors; Sex Factors; Spondylitis, Ankylosing - diagnosis; Spondylitis, Ankylosing - drug therapy; Spondylitis, Ankylosing - epidemiology; Stroke - diagnosis; Stroke - epidemiology; Taiwan - epidemiology; Time Factors; Taiwan; Stroke; Epidemiology; Ankylosing spondylitis; Taiwan

Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease. Although two prior studies detected increased prevalence ratios of cerebrovascular disease among AS patients, the results of the two studies investigating AS and stroke are in conflict. Therefore, the present cohort study set o...