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. 2019 Apr 22;104(9):3757–3767. doi: 10.1210/jc.2019-00153

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Figure 4. — Time-variant cumulative and current dose-related oral glucocorticoid hazard ratios for death by type of chronic inflammatory disease. Estimates are adjusted for prescribed inhaled, intra-articular, intramuscular, nasogastric, topical, and rectal glucocorticoids; baseline asthma; cancer; heart failure; chronic kidney disease; and inflammatory diseases (time-variant). All estimates were obtained among glucocorticoid users during the study period. HR, hazard ratio; IBD, inflammatory bowel disease; PMR/GCA, polymyalgia rheumatica and/or giant cell arteritis; RA, rheumatoid arthritis; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus; VAS, vasculitis.