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Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients with Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study
SIMPLE SUMMARY: We wanted to investigate the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in patients with Philadelphia-negative chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), since up to 50% of these patients experience gastrointestinal symptoms and several studies have suggested an association between h...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7564361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32967227 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers12092700 |
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author | Bak, Marie Jess, Tine Flachs, Esben Meulengracht Zwisler, Ann-Dorthe Juel, Knud Frederiksen, Henrik |
author_facet | Bak, Marie Jess, Tine Flachs, Esben Meulengracht Zwisler, Ann-Dorthe Juel, Knud Frederiksen, Henrik |
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description | SIMPLE SUMMARY: We wanted to investigate the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in patients with Philadelphia-negative chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), since up to 50% of these patients experience gastrointestinal symptoms and several studies have suggested an association between hematological cancers and IBD. We included ∼8000 patients and ∼80,000 sex- and age-matched, non-MPN comparisons from the general population, and found that MPN patients were two to three times more likely to develop IBD, but the absolute risk of IBD was modest. In addition, MPN patients were also 40% more likely to have a prior diagnosis of IBD. Our results pose intriguing questions about the causal pathways linking MPN and IBD, which may include genetic, treatment-related and immune-mediated factors. Moreover, it shows that abdominal symptoms in MPN patients may not only be caused by an enlarged spleen or treatment side-effects. Conversely, persistent leucocytosis and/or increased platelets in IBD patients may reflect concomitant MPN. ABSTRACT: An association between hematological cancers and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has previously been suggested, but the risk of IBD in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) is unknown. We conducted a nationwide population-based cohort study using Danish registries, to estimate the risk of IBD in individuals diagnosed with essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera, myelofibrosis or unclassifiable MPN during 1994–2013. MPN patients were matched 1:10 with sex- and age-matched comparisons. Everyone was followed until a diagnosis of IBD, death/emigration, or 31 December 2013. The risk of IBD overall and according to MPN subtype was calculated using Cox regression and presented as hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Of 8207 MPN patients followed for 45,232 person-years, 80 were diagnosed with IBD (61 ulcerative colitis, 19 Crohn’s disease). The rate of IBD per 1000 person-years was 1.8 (95% CI:1.4–2.2) in patients vs. 0.8 (95% CI:0.7–0.8) in comparisons, and the absolute 10-year risk of IBD was 0.8% (95% CI:0.6–1.0) in patients vs. 0.4% (95% CI:0.4–0.5) in comparisons. The HR of IBD was 2.4 (95% CI:2.1–2.9) with similar HRs for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. MPN subtype risks varied from 2.1 (95% CI:1.6–2.7) to 2.8 (95% CI:2.1–3.7). Our unselected cohort study showed a more than 2-fold increased risk of IBD in MPN patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-75643612020-10-26 Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients with Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study Bak, Marie Jess, Tine Flachs, Esben Meulengracht Zwisler, Ann-Dorthe Juel, Knud Frederiksen, Henrik Cancers (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: We wanted to investigate the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in patients with Philadelphia-negative chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs), since up to 50% of these patients experience gastrointestinal symptoms and several studies have suggested an association between hematological cancers and IBD. We included ∼8000 patients and ∼80,000 sex- and age-matched, non-MPN comparisons from the general population, and found that MPN patients were two to three times more likely to develop IBD, but the absolute risk of IBD was modest. In addition, MPN patients were also 40% more likely to have a prior diagnosis of IBD. Our results pose intriguing questions about the causal pathways linking MPN and IBD, which may include genetic, treatment-related and immune-mediated factors. Moreover, it shows that abdominal symptoms in MPN patients may not only be caused by an enlarged spleen or treatment side-effects. Conversely, persistent leucocytosis and/or increased platelets in IBD patients may reflect concomitant MPN. ABSTRACT: An association between hematological cancers and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has previously been suggested, but the risk of IBD in patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) is unknown. We conducted a nationwide population-based cohort study using Danish registries, to estimate the risk of IBD in individuals diagnosed with essential thrombocythemia, polycythemia vera, myelofibrosis or unclassifiable MPN during 1994–2013. MPN patients were matched 1:10 with sex- and age-matched comparisons. Everyone was followed until a diagnosis of IBD, death/emigration, or 31 December 2013. The risk of IBD overall and according to MPN subtype was calculated using Cox regression and presented as hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CI). Of 8207 MPN patients followed for 45,232 person-years, 80 were diagnosed with IBD (61 ulcerative colitis, 19 Crohn’s disease). The rate of IBD per 1000 person-years was 1.8 (95% CI:1.4–2.2) in patients vs. 0.8 (95% CI:0.7–0.8) in comparisons, and the absolute 10-year risk of IBD was 0.8% (95% CI:0.6–1.0) in patients vs. 0.4% (95% CI:0.4–0.5) in comparisons. The HR of IBD was 2.4 (95% CI:2.1–2.9) with similar HRs for ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. MPN subtype risks varied from 2.1 (95% CI:1.6–2.7) to 2.8 (95% CI:2.1–3.7). Our unselected cohort study showed a more than 2-fold increased risk of IBD in MPN patients. MDPI 2020-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7564361/ /pubmed/32967227 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers12092700 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Bak, Marie Jess, Tine Flachs, Esben Meulengracht Zwisler, Ann-Dorthe Juel, Knud Frederiksen, Henrik Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients with Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study |
title | Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients with Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study |
title_full | Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients with Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study |
title_fullStr | Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients with Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients with Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study |
title_short | Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients with Chronic Myeloproliferative Neoplasms: A Danish Nationwide Cohort Study |
title_sort | risk of inflammatory bowel disease in patients with chronic myeloproliferative neoplasms: a danish nationwide cohort study |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7564361/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32967227 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers12092700 |
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