Associations Between Methotrexate Use and the Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Elderly-onset Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Age Distribution
Age of Onset
Aged
Antirheumatic Agents
/ adverse effects
Arthritis, Rheumatoid
/ diagnosis
Cardiovascular Diseases
/ chemically induced
Cohort Studies
Confidence Intervals
Databases, Factual
Female
Geriatric Assessment
Humans
Incidence
Male
Methotrexate
/ adverse effects
Ontario
Prognosis
Proportional Hazards Models
Retrospective Studies
Risk Assessment
Sex Distribution
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
DISEASE-MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUGS
METHOTREXATE
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Journal
The Journal of rheumatology
ISSN: 0315-162X
Titre abrégé: J Rheumatol
Pays: Canada
ID NLM: 7501984
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2019
05 2019
Historique:
accepted:
22
08
2018
pubmed:
7
12
2018
medline:
18
7
2020
entrez:
4
12
2018
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We evaluated the associations between time-varying methotrexate (MTX) use and risk of cardiovascular events (CVE) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). We studied an inception cohort of 23,994 patients with RA diagnosed after their 65th birthday. Multivariable Cox regression models were fit to evaluate the associations between time-varying MTX use, controlling for other risk factors, and time to CVE. Alternative models assessed the cumulative duration of MTX use over the (1) first year, (2) previous year (recent use), and (3) entire duration of followup. We also assessed whether the strength of the association varied over time. Over 115,453 patient-years (PY), 3294 (13.7%) patients experienced a CVE (28.5 events per 1000 PY; 95% CI 27.6-29.5). In the multivariable analyses, the model assessing time-varying continuous use in the most recent year yielded the best fit. Increasing recent MTX use was associated with lower CVE risks (HR 0.79 for continuous use vs no use in past 12 months, 95% CI 0.70-0.88; p < 0.0001). Greater MTX use in the first year after cohort entry was also protective (HR 0.84, 95% CI 0.72-0.96; p = 0.0048), but this effect decreased with increasing followup. In contrast, longer MTX use during the entire followup was not clearly associated with CVE risk (HR 0.98, 95% CI 0.95-1.01; p = 0.1441). We observed about a 20% decrease in CVE associated with recent continuous MTX use. Greater MTX use in the first year of cohort entry also appeared to be important in the association between MTX and CVE risk.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30504508
pii: jrheum.180427
doi: 10.3899/jrheum.180427
doi:
Substances chimiques
Antirheumatic Agents
0
Methotrexate
YL5FZ2Y5U1
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
467-474Commentaires et corrections
Type : CommentIn