Table 2.

Adjusted odds ratio of various adverse outcomes in patients with inflammatory bowel disease on chronic corticosteroid therapy compared with those not on chronic corticosteroid therapy

	Patients with inflammatory bowel disease and steroid use (n = 18 030)
Side effects	Odds ratio	P‐value	Confidence interval
Osteoporosis	1.91	<0.001	1.77–2.05
Other bone disorders	1.27	0.271	0.83–1.92
Opportunistic infections	2.09	<0.001	1.80–2.41
Sepsis	0.94	0.252	0.84–1.05
Acute thrombotic event	1.48	<0.001	1.34–1.64
Transient ischemic attack	0.94	0.830	0.55–1.61
Cerebrovascular accident	0.82	0.156	0.63–1.08
Myocardial infarction	0.97	0.719	0.81–1.16
Diabetes mellitus	0.93	0.007	0.88–0.98
Cushing's syndrome	10.35	<0.001	7.29–14.67
Adrenal insufficiency	8.59	<0.001	6.96–10.62
Metabolic syndrome	0.99	0.958	0.96–1.03
Acute pancreatitis	0.73	0.002	0.61–0.89
Mood disorders	1.03	0.129	0.99–1.08
Drug‐induced cataract	2.98	0.349	0.30–29.34
Mortality	0.86	0.049	0.74–0.99