Table 2.

Cumulative incidence of autoimmune disease, fibromyalgia or myalgic encephalomyelitis by type of surgery

	Mesh group	Non‐mesh group
Number of patients at risk
At time of surgery	88 947	3389
At 1 year	88 258	3351
At 5 year	84 110	3192
At 10 year	29 123	1678
Cumulative incidence of systemic diseases, % (95% CI)
At 1 year	0.6 (0.5–0.6)	0.7 (0.4–1.0)
At 5 year	3.6 (3.5–3.7)	4.0 (3.4–4.7)
At 10 year	8.1 (7.9–8.3)	9.0 (8.0–10.1)
HR (95% CI)	0.89 (0.79–1.01), P = 0.06
Cumulative incidence of autoimmune disease only, % (95% CI)
At 1 year	0.6 (0.5–0.6)	0.7 (0.4–1.0)
At 5 year	3.4 (3.3–3.6)	3.9 (3.3–4.6)
At 10 year	7.7 (7.5–7.9)	8.7 (7.7–9.7)
HR (95% CI)	0.88 (0.78–0.99), P = 0.04