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. 2020 Jul 27;8(1):e001220. doi: 10.1136/bmjdrc-2020-001220

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HRs with 95% CIs for the association between time-variant oral glucocorticoid dose and type 2 diabetes for patients with any of the six immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, stratified by BMI group. HRs from Cox proportional imputed models adjusted for baseline age, sex, hypertension, prescribed non-oral glucocorticoids and blood pressure-lowering medication, and immune-mediated inflammatory disease type; and time-variant use of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; the general practice identifier was included as a random intercept to account for clustering effect. BMI, body mass index.