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Hereditary, socio-behavioural, and immuno-hormonal predictors of incident rheumatoid arthritis and therapy response influences on survival versus matched control subjects using a generalised structural equation model

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  1. Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, IL, USA.
  2. Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, IL, USA. amasi@uic.edu
  3. Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, IL, USA.
  4. Center for Outcomes Research, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, IL, and Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomic Research, University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy, Chicago, IL, USA.

CER12549
2020 Vol.38, N°4
PI 0640, PF 0648
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PMID: 31694742 [PubMed]

Received: 30/06/2019
Accepted : 26/08/2019
In Press: 17/10/2019
Published: 28/07/2020

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:
Incident onset and survival outcomes involve multiple risk factors and complex interactions preferably investigated in a single study. A generalized structural equation model (GSEM) was used to build an integrative framework to analyse multiple risk factors for incident rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and factors affecting long-term survival outcome.
METHODS:
Incident RA cases (n=54) had onsets between 1977 and 1994, after cohort entry in 1974. Four cohort control (CN) subjects (n=216) were matched on entry to each case in the community-based CLUE cohort and 270 subjects were followed from 1995 through 2017. Baseline variables included demographic, RA family history, behavioural factors and z-score levels of serum immunological, cytokine, isotype rheumatoid factors (RFs), adrenal steroids, luteinising hormone, prolactin and sex steroids. Four numerical integration methods of GSEM were performed in Stata 15.
RESULTS:
Cohort entry factors predicting RA onset included family history of RA, cigarette smoking and IgM RF. Total survival time from cohort entry was associated with incident RA and baseline variables of age, years of completed education, cigarette smoking, immunoreactive proteins and androgenic-anabolic steroids. Mortality of RA was significantly greater than CN subjects for cases having less than good therapy responses in 1995 and only for RA onset before age 60 years. Androgenic-anabolic steroid z-scores significantly correlated with improved survival only in CN subjects with assigned onset before the age of 60.
CONCLUSIONS:
Successful use of GSEM is feasible in analyses of prospective incident and subsequent survival data and promises to advance understanding of risk factors, survival, and casual pathways.

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