In-patient comorbidities in inclusion body myositis: a United States national in-patient sample-based study
Authors' conclusion
IBM increases a patient's risk for dysphagia, falls, and infection as compared to other IIM patients.
Study context
- Population
- Admissions with a primary diagnosis of inclusion body myositis (IBM) or idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM), US National Inpatient Sample, 2012–2018
- Participants
- 18,819 admissions
- Exposure
- IBM vs other IIM
- Outcome
- Rate of common inpatient comorbidities
Methodological detailsNational Inpatient Sample database, multivariable logistic regression
- National Inpatient Sample database
- Multivariable logistic regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Inpatient comorbidities (multivariable logistic regression)
OR
- Aspiration pneumonia
- 3.03
- PEG tube placement
- 2.91
- Falls
- 2.05
- Sepsis
- 1.30
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Age (years)
P < 0.001
Men
P < 0.001
White Caucasian
P < 0.001
Original publication
In-patient comorbidities in inclusion body myositis: a United States national in-patient sample-based study. Clin Exp Rheumatol. Published 25 May 2022. doi:10.
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