Characteristics of the colectomy as well as the matched control patients; the counts of the first CVD diagnosis, as well as CVD diagnoses within the seven CVD domains
| Patients with colectomy | Control patients* | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | All (n=1530) | With IBD† (n=791) | With cancer (n=531) | All* (n=22 950) | Orthopaedic surgery (n=7650) | Surgery in the GI tract‡ (n=7650) | Other surgery not in the GI tract§ (n=7650) |
| Gender (% male) | 49.0 | 51.2 | 50.8 | 49.0 | 49.0 | 49.0 | 49.0 |
| Age (years), median (minimum, maximum) | 60 (45, 90) | 56 (45, 84) | 65 (45, 90) | 59 (45, 91) | 59 (45, 91) | 59 (45, 91) | 59 (45, 92) |
| Counts of the first CVD diagnosis¶ | 394 | 191 | 133 | 6564 | 2148 | 2223 | 2193 |
| CVD diagnosis domain (counts of first events) | |||||||
| Hypertensive disorders | 187 | 89 | 59 | 3474 | 1148 | 1166 | 1160 |
| Acute ischaemic heart diseases | 100 | 55 | 29 | 1751 | 568 | 596 | 587 |
| Chronic ischaemic heart disease | 63 | 33 | 21 | 1224 | 379 | 435 | 410 |
| Cardiac arrhythmias | 105 | 48 | 36 | 1854 | 607 | 647 | 600 |
| Heart failure | 57 | 27 | 18 | 841 | 273 | 310 | 258 |
| Cerebrovascular diseases | 85 | 34 | 34 | 1422 | 464 | 493 | 465 |
| Other arterial diseases | 65 | 33 | 22 | 1227 | 407 | 419 | 401 |
*Age and sex matched, but otherwise randomly selected control patients; five for each surgical comparison group of orthopaedic surgery, surgery in the GI tract, other major surgery not in the GI tract.
†IBD includes ulcerative colitis, patients with Crohn's disease and diagnoses of other non-infective gastroenteritis and colitis.
‡Leaving the gastrointestinal tract intact.
§Surgery not related to cardiac diseases.
¶First occurring cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diagnosis of 32 possible CVD diagnoses.
CVD, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular; GI, gastrointestinal; IBD, inflammatory bowel disease.