Inflammatory bowel disease and risk of non-tuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease: a nationwide retrospective cohort study in Korea
Dong Eun Kye, Geonhui Min, Eunchae Kim, Heajung Lee, Jiyoung Yoon, Jai Hoon Yoon, Jun Su Lee, Hyun Lee, Bumhee Yang · 2026
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Dong Eun Kye and colleagues used nationwide Korean health insurance data to test whether inflammatory bowel disease raises the risk of nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease, a slow lung infection. Their 2026 retrospective cohort followed 6,869 adults with IBD from 2002 to 2019, matched four-to-one with people without the disease. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis were also examined apart.
Median follow-up stretched past thirteen years. Infection rates came out at 54.82 cases per 100,000 person-years in the IBD group against 43.21 in the matched group, a gap the adjusted models did not find significant. Neither bowel disease subtype showed a raised risk on its own. Competing-risk models told the same story. The authors conclude that, unlike tuberculosis, this mycobacterial lung disease does not appear more often in IBD patients, at least within Korean nationwide records.
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| CREATOR | Dong Eun Kye, Geonhui Min, Eunchae Kim, Heajung Lee, Jiyoung Yoon, Jai Hoon Yoon, Jun Su Lee, Hyun Lee, Bumhee Yang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |