Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Venous Thromboembolism Among Patients With Incident ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: A 20-Year Population-Based Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the cardiovascular disease (CVD) and venous thromboembolism (VTE) risks among patients with newly diagnosed antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV).

Patients and methods

A population-based incident AAV cohort of 58 patients diagnosed between 1996 and 2015 in Olmsted County, MN, was identified by medical record review. For each patient, 3 age- and sex-matched non-AAV comparators were randomly selected from the same population and assigned an index date corresponding to the AAV incidence date. Medical records of cases and comparators were reviewed for CVD events, which included cardiac events (coronary artery disease, heart failure, and atrial fibrillation), cerebrovascular accidents (CVA), peripheral vascular disease (PVD),

SUBMITTER: Berti A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6057792 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature