Associations between inflammatory bowel disease, social isolation, and mortality: evidence from a longitudinal cohort study
Jie Chen, Jiawei Geng, Jiayi Wang, Zhenhua Wu, Tian Fu, Yuhao Sun, Xuejie Chen, Xiaoyan Wang & Therese Hesketh
Background:Social well-being of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is garnering increased attention; however, the impact of social isolation remained poorly understood.Objectives:We investigated the joint association of social isolation and IBD with premature deaths to articulate the profound impact of social isolation in IBD prognosis.Design:Longitudinal cohort study.Methods:We leveraged data of 486,014 participants from UK Biobank (including 5791 with IBD), the mean follow-up was 11.84 years. Diagnoses of IBD and its subtypes of Crohn’s disease (CD)...
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