IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0255492.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The risk of psoriasis in patients with uveitis: A nationwide population-based cohort study

Author

Listed:
  • Yu-Yen Chen
  • Hsin-Hua Chen
  • Tzu-Chen Lo
  • Pesus Chou

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate whether the risk of subsequent psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis development is increased in patients with uveitis. Methods: In Taiwan’s national health insurance research database, we identified 195,125 patients with new-onset uveitis between 2001 and 2013. We randomly selected 390,250 individuals without uveitis who were matched 2:1 to uveitis cases based on age, sex and year of enrolment. The characteristics of the two groups were compared. Using multivariate Cox regression, hazard ratios (HRs) for psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis corresponding to uveitis were computed after adjustment for age, sex, insurance cost and comorbidities. In subgroup analyses, separate HRs for mild psoriasis, severe psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis were calculated. Results: The mean age of the study cohort was 50.2 ± 17.2 years. Hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidaemia and obesity were more prevalent in the uveitis group (all p

Suggested Citation

  • Yu-Yen Chen & Hsin-Hua Chen & Tzu-Chen Lo & Pesus Chou, 2021. "The risk of psoriasis in patients with uveitis: A nationwide population-based cohort study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(8), pages 1-10, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0255492
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255492
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255492
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255492&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pone.0255492?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0255492. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosone (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.