Effect of Obesity on Risk of Hospitalization, Surgery, and Serious Infection in Biologic-Treated Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A CA-IBD Cohort Study
Gu P, Luo J, Kim J, Paul P, Limketkai B, Sauk J, Park S, Parekh N, Zheng K, Rudrapatna V, Syal G, Ha C, McGovern D, Melmed G, Fleshner P, Eisenstein S, Ramamoorthy S, Dulai P, Boland B, Grunvald E, Mahadevan U, Ohno-Machado L, Sandborn W, Singh S. Effect of Obesity on Risk of Hospitalization, Surgery, and Serious Infection in Biologic-Treated Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A CA-IBD Cohort Study. The American Journal Of Gastroenterology 2022, 117: 1639-1647. PMID: 35973139, DOI: 10.14309/ajg.0000000000001855.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInflammatory bowel diseaseBiologic-treated patientsRisk of hospitalizationBody mass indexNormal body mass indexSerious infectionsBiologic agentsBowel diseaseCox proportional hazards analysisWorld Health Organization classificationEffect of obesityProportional hazards analysisElectronic health recordsCause hospitalizationVisceral obesityAdult patientsBaseline demographicsBiologic initiationBiologic therapyCohort studyEndoscopic outcomesMass indexOrganization classificationTreatment characteristicsStratified analysis