Spondyloarthritis & psoriatic arthritis

Systematic review and meta-analysis of individual serum lipids and analysis of lipid ratios in ankylosing spondylitis and healthy control cohorts: significantly lower mean HDL-cholesterol level in ankylosing spondylitis cohorts

Clin Exp RheumatolPublished Systematic review and meta-analysis

Pooled result · HDL-CResult — go to the resultPooled Hedges' g −0.484 95% CI −0.664 to −0.305

Authors' conclusion

Highly significantly lower HDL-C levels occurred in AS versus HC subjects.

Study context

Population
Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and healthy control cohorts; English-language articles in PubMed, Ovid Medline, Embase and Scopus, 1970 to 202168 articles
Comparison
AS vs healthy controls
Outcome
Serum lipids and lipoprotein ratios (SMD) in AS vs HC
Methodological detailsrandom-effects model, SMD (Hedges' g)
  • Random-effects model
  • SMD (Hedges' g)

Pooled result

HDL-C

Pooled Hedges' g

−0.484

95% CI −0.664 to −0.305

P < 0.001

ASvs HC
pooled Hedges' g −0.484 (95% CI −0.664 to −0.305); P < 0.001

As reported in the abstract

Further pooled results

Total ÷ HDL-C ratio (AS minus healthy control (HC) weighted means)

HC values below the lowest ratio in AS
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Original publication

Systematic review and meta-analysis of individual serum lipids and analysis of lipid ratios in ankylosing spondylitis and healthy control cohorts: significantly lower mean HDL-cholesterol level in ankylosing spondylitis cohorts. Clin Exp Rheumatol. Published 30 November 2022. doi:10.55563/clinexprheumatol/gtcard

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