The risk of nontuberculous mycobacterial infection in patients with Sjogren's syndrome: a nationwide, population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Nontuberculous mycobacterial (NTM) infection in immunocompromized patients is currently a growing health concern, and we aimed to examine the relative risk of NTM infection in patients with Sjögren's syndrome (SS) compared with that in non-SS individuals.

Methods

We used the 2003-2012 Taiwanese National Health Insurance Research Database to identify 6554 incident SS cases during 2007-2012 and selected 98,310 non-SS controls matched (1:15) for age, gender, and the year of first SS diagnosis date after excluding those who had rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erythematosus.

Results

We identified four NTM-infected patients in the SS group (three in the first year) and nine in the non-SS group (three in the first year). SS patients had a higher incidence r

SUBMITTER: Chao WC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5745909 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature