P850 Co-medication before and after onset of inflammatory bowel disease in adults or elderly

LundPhD student, K.(1)*;Zegers, F.D.(2);Nielsen, J.(3);Brodersen, J.B.(4);Knudsen, T.(4);Kjeldsen, J.(5);Larsen, M.D.(6);Nørgård, B.M.(7);

(1)Odense University Hospital & University of Southern Denmark, Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Department of Clinical Research- Research Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, Odense, Denmark;(2)Odense University Hospital, Center for Clinical Epidemiology, Odense, Denmark;(3)Odense University Hospital & University of Southern Denmark, Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Department of Clinical Research- Research, Odense, Denmark;(4)Hospital of Southwest Jutland & University of Southern Denmark, Department of Medical Gastroenterology & Department of Regional Health Science, Esbjerg, Denmark;(5)Odense University Hospital & University of Southern Denmark, Department of Medical Gastroenterology S & Department of Clinical Research, Odense, Denmark;(6)Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Trondheim, Denmark;(7)Odense University Hospital & University of Southern Denmark, Center for Clinical Epidemiology & Department of Clinical Research, Odense, Denmark;

Background

The incidence of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is increasing. Co-medication is clinically important in addition to the treatment of IBD. However, real-world data on co-medication is sparse. Thus, we aimed to describe whether a diagnosis of IBD affects the prescription pattern of co-medication used to treat other diseases in adult-onset and elderly-onset IBD.

Methods

This nationwide cohort study utilized data from Danish Health Registers. We included patients with adult-onset of IBD (18-59 years of age) and elderly-onset of IBD (+60 years of age) from 1998-2018 with three years of follow-up after the diagnosis for all patients. We identified patients who had at least two diagnoses of IBD in The National Patient Register. We described redeemed prescriptions of 11 common groups for medication used to treat conditions other than IBD using data from The Danish National Prescription Registry.

Results

We identified 36,165 incident patients. We created two cohorts; 27,386 (75%) had adult-onset IBD, and 8,779 (25%) patients had elderly-onset IBD, Table 1. The proportion of patients with redeemed prescriptions in both cohorts was statistically significantly increased one and three years after onset of IBD for antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives/hypnotics, opioids, non-opioid analgesics, antidiabetics, and proton pump inhibitors, compared to one and three years before diagnosis, Figure 1 & Figure 2.

Conclusion

The proportion of patients with redeemed prescriptions for antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives/hypnotics, opioids, non-opioid analgesics, antidiabetics, and proton pump inhibitors was significantly increased one and three years after a diagnosis of IBD compared to one and three years before diagnosis.