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. 2019 Dec 12;17:414. doi: 10.1186/s12967-019-02164-3

Table 2.

Risk factors of mortality for IBD patients registered in the Catastrophic Illness Registry, Taiwan, 2001–2015

UC (n = 2887) CD (n = 919)
Mortality (n = 214) Survival (n = 2673) p value Mortality (n = 96) Survival (n = 823) p value
n (%) n (%) n (%) n (%)
Male sex 143 (66.8) 1644 (61.5) 57 (59.4) 574 (69.7) 0.038
IBD registered age < 0.001 < 0.001
 ≤ 39 24 (11.2) 1094 (40.9) 20 (20.8) 523 (63.6)
 40–59 58 (27.1) 1193 (44.6) 26 (27.1) 215 (26.1)
 ≥ 60 132 (61.7) 386 (14.4) 50 (52.1) 85 (10.3)
Operation
 Colectomy 1 (0.5) 8 (0.3) 0.501 1 (1.0) 5 (0.6) 0.485
 Colostomy 31 (14.5) 91 (3.4) < 0.001 21 (21.9) 52 (6.3) < 0.001
 Exploratory laparotomy 4 (1.9) 9 (0.3) 0.012 9 (9.4) 16 (1.9) < 0.001
 Ileostomy 17 (7.9) 61 (2.3) < 0.001 8 (8.3) 19 (2.3) 0.004
Comorbidity
 Hypertension 94 (43.9) 580 (21.7) < 0.001 37 (38.5) 129 (15.7) < 0.001
 Diabetes 48 (22.4) 278 (10.4) < 0.001 19 (19.8) 68 (8.3) < 0.001
 Hyperlipidemia 42 (19.6) 557 (20.8) 0.674 20 (20.8) 101 (12.3) 0.019
 COPD 41 (19.2) 188 (7.0) < 0.001 10 (10.4) 48 (5.8) 0.081
 Hepatitis 19 (8.9) 232 (8.7) 0.921 7 (7.3) 55 (6.7) 0.829
EIM
 Uveitis 0 (0.0) 90 (3.4) 0.006 0 (0.0) 23 (2.8) 0.159
 Psoriasis 10 (4.7) 126 (4.7) 0.978 2 (2.1) 54 (6.6) 0.111
 Erythema nodosum 2 (0.9) 20 (0.8) 0.763 1 (1.0) 24 (2.9) 0.504
 Arthritis 21 (9.8) 172 (6.4) 0.057 7 (7.3) 77 (9.4) 0.507
 Cholangitis 7 (3.3) 20 (0.8) 0.003 4 (4.2) 11 (1.3) 0.062
 Deep vein thrombosis 5 (2.3) 27 (1.0) 0.083 5 (5.2) 11 (1.3) 0.019
Complication
 Fistula 26 (12.2) 355 (13.3) 0.638 13 (13.5) 245 (29.8) < 0.001
 Abdominal wall abscess 11 (5.1) 96 (3.6) 0.249 7 (7.3) 114 (13.9) 0.072
Cancer
 Colorectal cancer 10 (4.7) 11 (0.4) < 0.001 3 (3.1) 5 (0.6) 0.042
 Liver cancer 9 (4.2) 5 (0.2) < 0.001 2 (2.1) 0 (0.0) 0.011
Hospitalization
 Pneumonia 96 (44.9) 114 (4.3) < 0.001 36 (37.5) 56 (6.8) < 0.001
 Urinary tract infection 69 (32.2) 174 (6.5) < 0.001 25 (26.0) 86 (10.5) < 0.001
 Sepsis 122 (57.0) 171 (6.4) < 0.001 57 (59.4) 112 (13.6) < 0.001