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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 19.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Haematol. 2020 Dec 28;106(3):380–388. doi: 10.1111/ejh.13563

Table 3:

Personal history of autoimmune disease and risk of progression of MGUS to LP and MM

LP MM✣✣
Total
(n=19,303)
No progression
(n= 16,952)
Progression
(n=2,351)
HR✣✣✣ 95% CI✣✣✣✣ p value HR 95% CI p value
Autoantibodies detectable 3,731 3,355 376 0.73 0.61–0.86 0.0002 0.75 0.61–0.93 0.0079
Systemic involvement 1,271 1,152 119 0.67 0.51–0.88 0.0037 0.63 0.45–0.88 0.0077
 Rheumatoid arthritis 979 886 93 0.66 0.48–0.91 0.0114 0.72 0.50–1.05 0.0870
 Sjögren syndrome 225 198 27 1.20 0.74–1.94 0.4581 0.70 0.33–1.45 0.3297
Organ involvement 2,720 2,445 275 0.73 0.59–0.90 0.0034 0.80 0.62–1.03 0,0823
 Autoimmune hemolytic anemia 125 106 19 1.04 0.43–2.51 0.9227 0.62 0.16–2.49 0,5005
 Chronic rheumatic heart disease 169 153 16 0.49 0.20–1.17 0.1084 0.76 0.32–1.84 0.5478
 Diabetes type I 1,621 1,461 160 0.85 0.62–1.17 0.3226 1.01 0.70–1.45 0.9607
 Multiple sclerosis 70 61 9 0.82 0.45–1.48 0.4994 1.03 0.53–1.98 0.9307
 Pernicious anemia 144 130 14 0.70 0.29–1.69 0.4298 1.09 0.45–2.64 0.8410
Autoantibodies not detectable 2,580 2,313 267 0.78 0.64–0.95 0.0116 0.69 0.54–0.89 0.0045
 Aplastic anemia 188 153 35 1.21 0.50–2.92 0.6673 1.09 0.35–3.40 0.8772
 Ankylosing spondylitis 118 105 13 0.41 0.15–1.10 0.0756 0.63 0.24–1.70 0.3626
 Crohn’s disease 172 156 16 0.59 0.28–1.25 0.1693 0.64 0.27–1.54 0.3172
 Temporal arteritis 354 310 44 1.05 0.67–1.63 0.8331 0.86 0.47–1.55 0.6111
 Polymyalgia rheumatica 1,052 956 96 0.87 0.66–1.15 0.3378 0.78 0.54–1.12 0.1735
 Psoriatic arthritis 177 167 10 0.79 0.35–1.76 0.5589 0.57 0.18–1.78 0.3367
 Sarcoidosis 144 134 10 0.52 0.25–1.08 0.0799 0.45 0.17–1.21 0.1133
 Ulcerative cholitis 256 229 27 0.90 0.53–1.52 0.6918 0.97 0.52–1.80 0.9153

Lymphoproliferative disease

✣✣

Multiple myeloma

✣✣✣

Hazard ratio, adjusted for age, gender and year of diagnosis

✣✣✣✣

CI denotes confidence interval