Meta-analysis on incidence of venous thromboembolism in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

VernacularTitle:类风湿关节炎患者静脉血栓栓塞发生率的Meta分析
Author: Wenting DU ; Xiaoping LOU ; Xiao ZHENG ; Beibei ZHAO ; Hongxia SHEN
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: arthritis,rheumatoid; venous thromboembolism; Meta-analysis
From: Chongqing Medicine 2016;45(9):1244-1248
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To systematically analyze and assess the risk of venous thromboembolism in the patients with rheuma‐toid arthritis(RA) .Methods The related literatures on the venous thromboembolism occurrence in the patients with RA published at home and abroad were performed the electronic retrieval .The obtained data were analyzed by adopting the RevMan5 .1 software . The data unable to merge were analyzed by adopting the descriptive analysis method .Results A total of 10 related papers were in‐cluded .The 3 indicators of venous thromboembolism occurrence rate ,deep vein thrombosis occurrence rate and pulmonary thrombo‐embolism occurrence rate were performed the meta analysis .The RR and 95% CI of the occurrence rates of venous thromboembo‐lism ,deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary thromboembolism were 2 .00(1 .71 ,2 .33) ,2 .31(1 .84 ,2 .90) ,2 .25(2 .23 ,2 .28) respec‐tively .Conclusion The risk degree of venous thromboembolism occurrence in the RA patients is higher than that in the non‐RA pa‐tients .