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Increased mortality among men aged 50 years old or above with elevated IgA anti-transglutaminase antibodies: NHANES III

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Increased mortality among men aged 50 years old or above with elevated IgA anti-transglutaminase antibodies: NHANES III
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BMC Gastroenterology, November 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12876-016-0547-8
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Alberto Rubio-Tapia, Jonas F. Ludvigsson, Rok Seon Choung, Tricia L. Brantner, S. Vincent Rajkumar, Ola Landgren, Joseph A. Murray

Abstract

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies to tissue transglutaminase (tTG) are the serologic test of choice for diagnosing celiac disease (CD). Our aim was to determine if elevated IgA anti-tTG were associated with increased mortality risk. Stored serum samples of National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III (1988-1992) were available for 6032 individuals aged 50 years old or above, which were screened for IgA anti-tTG, and if positive, for IgA endomysial antibodies. Mortality was determined from the National Death Index records through 2006. Hazard ratios were calculated through Cox proportional hazards regression. From a total of 6032, 85 participants tested positive for IgA anti-tTG (1.4 %) and 5947 tested negative. After a median follow-up of 13 years, IgA anti-tTG positive participants were at increased risk of death in both crude (HR = 1.68; 95 % CI = 1.30-2.18) and adjusted analyses (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.43; 95 % CI = 1.10-1.85) as compared to IgA anti-tTG negative participants. The excess mortality was restricted to IgA anti-tTG positive males (adjusted hazard ratio = 1.69 (95 % CI = 1.26-2.29), as opposed to a hazard ratio of 0.96 (95 % CI = 0.57-1.62) among IgA anti-tTG positive females. Although the most common cause of death in IgA anti-tTG positive participants was cardiovascular disease (36 %), the increased hazard ratio was only observed in respiratory cause of death as compared to IgA anti-tTG negative participants (adjusted hazard ratio = 5.11; 2.76-9.46). Men aged 50 years old or above participants of NHANES III with elevated IgA anti-tTG antibodies had increased mortality risk. Elevated IgA anti-tTG antibodies could be a nonspecific marker of serious disease in older men.

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Unknown 58 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 6 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 10%
Student > Bachelor 5 9%
Researcher 4 7%
Student > Postgraduate 4 7%
Other 6 10%
Unknown 27 47%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 31%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 3%
Other 3 5%
Unknown 28 48%
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