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Apr 5, 2022, 8 tweets

Parallel Session I: Epidemiology

Age and Time-Dependent Increase i Incident Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane (Anti-GBM) Disease – A Nationwide Cohort Study

Dr. Karl Nelveg-Kristensen

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What do we know about anti GBM disease?

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Retrospective cohort study

Anti-GBM identified by ICD10 code.

Denmark

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Results

Baseline characteristics

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Subgroup analysis of double positivity.

Slight predominance of MPO; also older and more often female.

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Incidence increasing over time.

Bimodal age distribution.

More lung haemorrhage in younger male population.

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What about mortality?

See below:

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Conclusions

Increasing incidence over time period.

Bimodal age distribution.

Double positivity behaves differently.

Mortality is high

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