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Query: UNIPROT:P01889 (ankylosing spondylitis)
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The mortality and causes of death in 398 patients (47 women, 351 men) with definite ankylosing spondylitis, admitted to hospital for the first time between 1961 and 1969, were investigated. The mean age at first admission was 36.5 years (SD 11.8). After a mean follow up time of 25.7 years, a total of 152 patients (12 women, 140 men) had died. The expected mortality based on the mortality statistics of the general population of the same sex and age was 103.1 (9.4 women and 93.7 men). Thus the overall mortality of the patients with ankylosing spondylitis was 1.5 times that expected. Those patients who had died were significantly older, had a higher erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and more inflamed peripheral joints when first seen than the surviving patients. The main difference between the observed and expected causes of death was the high incidence of deaths from ankylosing spondylitis, which was the underlying cause of death in 27 patients. The mechanism of death in these patients was secondary amyloidosis in 19, cardiovascular complications in six, fracture of the spine in one, and it was not known in one patient. Excess deaths due to circulatory, gastrointestinal and renal diseases, and violence were also observed.
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PMID:Mortality and causes of death in 398 patients admitted to hospital with ankylosing spondylitis. 848 68

Subjects with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) have an increased incidence of deaths from accidents and violence, which is due in part, but perhaps not entirely, to the vulnerability of the affected spine to fractures. The present study covered all the 71 subjects (58 men and 13 women) who had died in Finland in 1989 and who were entitled under the nationwide sickness insurance scheme to receive specially reimbursed medication for AS. The death certificates of an earlier cohort study dealing with mortality in AS were also re-examined. Sixteen subjects (14 men and two women) in the 1989 mortality series had died of accidents and violence. Nine of the deaths (three accidents, two suicides and four alcohol poisonings) were alcohol related. The relative risk of such deaths in subjects with AS compared to the Finnish population as a whole was 2.64 (95% confidence interval 1.44-4.84). In the cohort study, 16 deaths had been due to accidents and violence, the expected number being 11.4. Eight of the 16 deaths had been alcohol related. Uncontrolled use of alcohol is an important determinant in the surplus of deaths from accidents and violence in Finnish patients with AS.
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PMID:Increased incidence of alcohol-related deaths from accidents and violence in subjects with ankylosing spondylitis. 1033 93