6 findings from large Behcet’s disease study
The matched cohort study shows increased cardiovascular risk and higher-than-average mortality
13th February 2020
By Clare Pain
People with Behcet’s disease are more prone to ischaemic heart disease, stroke and venous thromboembolism than their healthy peers, UK researchers say.
And male patients, in particular, have a higher-than-average risk of early death.
The investigators conducted what they believed to be the largest population-based study of the syndrome to date, drawing on the UK THIN primary care database.
Comparing 1281 people with Behcet’s disease with 5124 matched controls, over a mean follow-up of