Meta-analysis on causes of ulcerative colitis
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2015.12.023
- VernacularTitle:溃疡性结肠炎病因的Meta分析
- Author:
Ruili LUO
1
;
Lijuan HUO
;
Jie ZHANG
;
Qiannan ZHANG
Author Information
1. 山西医科大学第一医院消化内科
- Keywords:
Ulcerative colitis;
Related factor;
Risk factor;
Meta-analysis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2015;36(12):1419-1423
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To analyze the main influencing factor of ulcerative colitis (UC).Methods Literature retrieval was conducted by using English databases (PubMed,Cochrane and Embase) and Chinese databases (CNKI,Wanfang,SinoMed and VIP) to collect the studies on the influencing factors of UC published both at home and abroad from January 2000 to October 2014.According to the inclusion and exclusion criteria,data were extracted and methodological quality was assessed.Then,a Meta-analysis was performed with Stata 12.0 software.Results A total of 24 casecontrol studies were included,involving 5 653 patients and 20 218 controls.The results of Meta-analysis showed that the influencing factors of UC would include family history of inflammatory bowel disease,ex-smoker,gastrointestinal infections,regular consumption of milk,fat diet,appendectomy,smoking and high educational level,with the pooled OR values as 4.68 (95％ CI:3.59-6.11),1.81 (95％CI:1.58-2.09),5.10 (95％CI:2.38-10.92),2.26 (95％CI:1.65-3.09),2.21 (95％ CI:1.49-3.27),0.40 (95％ CI:0.32-0.51),0.44 (95％ CI:0.32-0.60) and 0.50 (95％ CI:0.36-0.69),respectively.Conclusion Current evidence showed that the risk factors influencing the incidence of UC were family history of inflammatory bowel disease,ex-smoker,gastrointestinal infections,regular consumption of milk and fat diet,whereas appendectomy,smoking and high educational level were protective factors for UC.
