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Nontuberculosis Mycobacterium Disease is a Risk Factor for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Nationwide Cohort Study

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Background

The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and nontuberculosis mycobacterium (NTM) disease.

Methods

We used data from the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan in this study. The NTM cohort contained 3,005 patients, and each case was randomly frequency matched by age, sex, income, occupation, and index year with four people from the general population without NTM infections. Multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression was used to calculate adjusted hazard ratios (aHR) of COPD in the NTM cohort compared with the non-NTM cohort.

Results

The incidence of COPD was 3.08-fold higher (21.75 vs. 6.11 per 1,000 person-years) in the NTM cohort than in the non-NTM cohort. The aHR of COPD comparing the NTM cohort with the non-NTM cohort was 3.57 (95 % CI 2.56–4.97) for women and 2.89 (95 % CI 2.31–3.61) for men. The aHR of COPD was higher in the patients with NTM infection and a comorbidity such as bronchopneumonia, pneumonia, diabetes, asthma, and heart disease. The Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex group (MAC) and the non-MAC group were isolated in the NTM cohort. The MAC group had a higher aHR of COPD than the non-NTM cohort (aHR = 3.72, 95 % CI 2.94–4.72). The cumulative incidence of COPD in the NTM cohort was higher than in the non-NTM cohort (P < 0.0001, log rank test).

Conclusions

Physicians should be aware of indolent NTM disease that increases the risk of COPD.

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported in part by Grants (DMR-102-014 and DMR-102-023) from our hospital and the Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare Clinical Trial and Research Center for Excellence (DOH102-TD-B-111-004), and the Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare Cancer Research Center for Excellence (MOHW103-TD-B-111-03). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. No additional external funding was received for this study.

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  1. Department of Chest Medicine and Family Medicine, Ditmanson Medical Foundation, Chia-Yi Christian Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

    Jun-Jun Yeh & Christine Yi-Ting Chou

  2. Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan

    Jun-Jun Yeh

  3. Meiho University, Pingtung, Taiwan

    Jun-Jun Yeh

  4. Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

    Yu-Chiao Wang

  5. College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan

    Yu-Chiao Wang

  6. National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Christine Yi-Ting Chou

  7. Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine Science and School of Medicine, College of Medicine, China Medical University, No. 2, Yuh-Der Road, Taichung, 404, Taiwan

    Fung-Chang Sung & Chia-Hung Kao

  8. Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan

    Chia-Hung Kao

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Yeh, JJ., Wang, YC., Sung, FC. et al. Nontuberculosis Mycobacterium Disease is a Risk Factor for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Nationwide Cohort Study. Lung 192, 403–411 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00408-014-9574-9

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