Abstract
Background & aims
Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is one of the most prevalent upper respiratory tract diseases. However, little is known the effect of CRS on the cardiovascular aspects of patients. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in patients with CRS compared with that in the general population.
Methods
This retrospective cohort study was performed using the Korean National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) database. To minimize confounding, age, sex, and cardiovascular risk profiles were adjusted. The primary endpoint was newly diagnosed AMI in patients between January 2005 and December 2018. The relative risk of AMI in patients with CRS was compared with that in controls. Kaplan–Meier survival curves and Cox proportional regression tests were used for statistical analyses.
Results
Among 5,179,981 patients from the NHIS database, 996,679 patients with CRS were selected. The control group was 10 times (n = 9,966,790) the number of individuals in the CRS group. The CRS group had better cardiovascular profiles than those of the control group and had an adjusted hazard ratio of 0.99 (95% confidence interval, 0.97–1.02) for AMI.
Conclusion
There was no significant association between the two groups regardless of the presence of nasal polyps. This is the first study adjusting cardiovascular risk profiles and analyzing the relationship between CRS and AMI. CRS was not associated with a high incidence of AMI after adjusting for cardiovascular risk factors.
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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