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. 2022 Mar 4;55(10):1330–1341. doi: 10.1111/apt.16820

TABLE 5.

Risk of incident depression and anxiety in the first year following diagnosis amongst individuals with IBD compared with the control cohort

Outcome Depression Anxiety
Unadjusted HR (95% CI; P value) Adjusted* HR (95% CI; P value) Unadjusted HR (95% CI; P value) Adjusted* HR (95% CI; P value)
Cohort
Matched Controls 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−)
IBD 1.37 (1.23‐1.52; 0.000) 1.26 (1.13‐1.40; 0.000) 1.50 (1.35‐1.68; 0.000) 1.36 (1.21‐1.52; 0.000)
Sex
Male 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−)
Female 1.80 (1.61‐2.00; 0.000) 1.77 (1.59‐1.97; 0.000) 1.68 (1.50‐1.87; 0.000) 1.67 (1.49‐1.86; 0.000)
Age at diagnosis (years)
<18 0.36 (0.25‐0.50; 0.000) 0.59 (0.42‐0.83; 0.003) 0.39 (0.28‐0.55; 0.000) 0.55 (0.38‐0.77; 0.001)
18 < 25 1.23 (1.02‐1.47; 0.028) 1.37 (1.14‐1.64; 0.001) 1.20 (0.99‐1.46; 0.094) 1.30 (1.06‐1.58; 0.011)
25 < 40 1.17 (1.02‐1.32; 0.019) 1.19 (1.04‐1.35; 0.010) 1.16 (1.01‐1.33; 0.028) 1.18 (1.03‐1.35; 0.019)
40 < 60 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−)
≥60 0.77 (0.67‐0.90; 0.000) 0.79 (0.69‐0.91; 0.001) 0.83 (0.72‐0.98; 0.008 0.82 (0.71‐0.95; 0.007)
Social deprivation
IMD 1–3 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−)
IMD 4–5 1.24 (1.07‐1.42; 0.002) 1.14 (0.99‐1.31; 0.056) 1.07 (0.92‐1.24; 0.380) 1.02 (0.88‐1.18; 0.787)
Unknown 1.06 (0.94‐1.19; 0.335) 1.06 (0.93‐1.19; 0.333) 1.12 (0.99‐1.25; 0.068) 1.11 (0.98‐1.25; 0.098)
Era of IBD diagnosis
Era 1 2004–2007 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−)
Era 2 2008–2011 1.21 (1.07‐1.36; 0.002) 1.11 (1.02‐1.29; 0.102) 1.02 (0.90‐1.16; 0.809) 0.95 (0.86‐1.12; 0.470)
Era 3 2012–2015 1.23 (1.08‐1.40; 0.002) 1.08 (1.00‐1.31; 0.230) 1.41 (1.24‐1.61; 0.000) 1.27 (1.12‐1.46; 0.000)
Smoking status n (%)
Never 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−) 1 (−)
Smoker 2.03 (1.77‐2.32; 0.000) 1.96 (1.71‐2.24; 0.000) 1.65 (1.41‐1.91; 0.000) 1.60 (1.37‐1.86; 0.000)
Ex‐smoker 1.23 (1.08‐1.41; 0.002) 1.32 (1.15‐1.51; 0.000) 1.32 (1.15‐1.53; 0.000) 1.37 (1.18‐1.58; 0.000)
Missing 0.57 (0.48‐0.66; 0.000) 0.61 (0.52‐0.72; 0.000) 0.70 (0.60‐0.82; 0.000) 0.78 (0.67‐0.92; 0.003)
Corticosteroid use
No 1 (−) 1(−) 1(−) 1(−)
Yes 0.89 (0.59‐1.32; 0.564) 1.14 (0.76‐1.72; 0.525) 0.63 (0.44‐0.91; 0.013) 0.84 (0.58‐1.22; 0.367)

*All covariates in the table were included within the adjusted analysis. Abbreviations: *ADM, antidepressant medication; *OR, odds ratio; *CI, confidence interval; *IBD, inflammatory bowel disease;*CD, Crohn’s disease *UC, ulcerative colitis; *IMD ‐ Index of Multiple Deprivation; IMD 1 represents the least deprived and IMD 5 the most deprived. IMD ‐ Data are available only for individual’s resident in England * Depression (depression diagnostic and/or depressive symptom code) * Anxiety (anxiety diagnostic and/or anxiety symptom code).

Bold values indicate statistical significance.