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. 2022 Feb 17;9(2):1502–1504. doi: 10.1002/ehf2.13855

Table 1B.

The risks of heart failure in ustekinumab‐treated and anti‐tumour necrosis factor‐α inhibitor‐treated groups before inverse probability of treatment weighting

Number Event Person‐years IR a HR (95% CI)
Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4 Model 5
HF outcome
Anti‐TNF‐α inhibitor 2020 44 3995.02 11.014 1 [reference] 1 [reference] 1 [reference] 1 [reference] 1 [reference]
Ustekinumab 2448 40 5507.33 7.263 0.674 (0.439–1.035) 0.614 (0.4–0.944) 0.612 (0.397–0.942) 0.612 (0.397–0.941) 0.627 (0.407–0.967)

CI, confidence interval; HF, heart failure; HR, hazard ratio; IR, incidence rate; TNF‐α, tumour necrosis factor‐α.

Model 1: nonadjusted. Model 2: adjusted for sex and age. Model 3: adjusted sex, age, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and dyslipidaemia. Model 4: adjusted sex, age, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, and malignancy. Model 5: adjusted sex, age, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidaemia, malignancy, and patients with psoriatic arthritis and severe psoriasis covered by the individual co‐payment beneficiaries programme for rare and intractable disorders.

a

Per 1000 person‐years.