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A Population-Based Study on the Association between Benign Prostatic Enlargement and Rheumatoid Arthritis

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  • Ya-Mei Tzeng
  • Li-Ting Kao
  • Herng-Ching Lin
  • Chao-Yuan Huang

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Benign prostatic hyperplasia is one of the chronic inflammatory conditions in ageing male populations. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a major autoimmune disease and is also regarded as a chronic inflammatory disorder. Although RA and benign prostatic enlargement (BPE) may share the same underlying etiologies, almost no study has ever attempted to explore the relationship between RA and BPE. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship between RA and BPE using a population-based dataset. This case-control study used data retrieved from the Taiwan Longitudinal Health Insurance Database 2005. This study comprised 18,716 patients with BPE and 18,716 age-matched patients without BPE. Conditional logistic regression analyses were performed to calculate the odds ratio (OR) for having been previously diagnosed with RA between patients with BPE and comparison patients. In total, 485 of the 37,432 sampled patients (1.3%) had received a prior RA diagnosis. There was a significant difference in the prevalence of prior RA between cases and controls (1.6% vs. 1.0%, p

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  • Ya-Mei Tzeng & Li-Ting Kao & Herng-Ching Lin & Chao-Yuan Huang, 2015. "A Population-Based Study on the Association between Benign Prostatic Enlargement and Rheumatoid Arthritis," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 10(7), pages 1-6, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0133013
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133013
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