Effect of Alcoholic Intoxication on the Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Study

• Published in: PloS one 2016-11, Vol.11 (11), p.e0165411-e0165411
• Main Authors: Hsu, Tai-Yi, Shih, Hong-Mo, Wang, Yu-Chiao, Lin, Leng-Chieh, He, Guan-Yi, Chen, Chih-Yu, Kao, Chia-Hung, Chen, Chao-Hsien, Chen, Wei-Kung, Yang, Tse-Yen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adult; Age; Age Factors; Aged; Alcoholic Intoxication - complications; Alcoholism; Biology and Life Sciences; Chronic illnesses; Codes; Cohort analysis; Comorbidity; Comparative analysis; Confidence intervals; Crohn's disease; Cytokines; Drunkenness; Emergency medical care; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Gastroenterology; Health risks; Hepatology; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Humans; Incidence; Inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammatory bowel diseases; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - etiology; Intestine; Intoxication; Male; Medical laboratories; Medical research; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Patients; People and Places; Permeability; Population; Regression analysis; Retrospective Studies; Risk; Risk Factors; Sex Factors; Smoking; Social Sciences; Statistical analysis; Studies; Taiwan - epidemiology; Ulcerative colitis
• ISSN: 1932-6203; 1932-6203
• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0165411

This study investigated whether alcoholic intoxication (AI) increases the risk of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) by using a population-based database in Taiwan. This retrospective matched-cohort study included 57 611 inpatients with new-onset AI (AI cohort) and 230 444 randomly selected controls (non-AI cohort). Each patient was monitored for 10 years to individually identify those who were subsequently diagnosed with Crohn disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) during the follow-up period. Cox proportional hazard regression analysis was conducted to determine the risk of IBD in patients with AI compared with controls without AI. The incidence rate of IBD during the 10-year follow-up period was 2.69 per 1 000 person-years and 0.49 per 1 000 person-years in the AI and non-AI cohorts, respectively. After adjustment for age, sex, and comorbidity, the AI cohort exhibited a 3.17-fold increased risk of IBD compared with the non-AI cohort (hazard ratio [HR] = 3.17, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.19-4.58). Compared with the non-AI cohort, the HRs of CD and UC were 4.40 and 2.33 for the AI cohort, respectively. After stratification for the severity of AI according to the duration of hospital stay, the adjusted HRs exhibited a significant correlation with the severity; the HRs of IBD were 1.76, 6.83, and 19.9 for patients with mild, moderate, and severe AI, respectively (p for the trend < .0001). The risk of IBD was higher in patients with AI and increased with the length of hospital stay.