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Research ArticleMyositis

Acute Coronary Syndrome in Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies: A Population-based Study

Valérie Leclair, John Svensson, Ingrid E. Lundberg and Marie Holmqvist
The Journal of Rheumatology November 2019, 46 (11) 1509-1514; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.181248
Valérie Leclair
From the Unit of Clinical Epidemiology, and the Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Solna, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Division of Rheumatology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Abstract

Objective. Evidence suggests an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) diseases, including acute coronary syndrome (ACS), in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). The aim of this study was to investigate the risk of ACS in an incident IIM cohort compared to the general Swedish population.

Methods. A cohort of 655 individuals with incident IIM and 6813 general population comparators were identified from national registries. IIM subjects were diagnosed from 2002 to 2011. Followup started at IIM diagnosis and corresponding date in the general population. ACS, CV comorbidities, and CV risk factors were defined using International Classification of Diseases codes. Incidence rates including 95% CI were calculated. Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare the risk of ACS in patients with IIM and the general population. The competing risk of death was accounted for using competing risk regression models.

Results. The incidence rate of ACS in IIM was higher than in the general population, particularly within the first year of diagnosis and in older individuals. The overall ACS incidence rate in IIM was 15.6 (95% CI 11.7–20.4) per 1000 person-years, with an HR of 2.4 (95% CI 1.8–3.2) compared with the general population. When accounting for the competing risk of death, the risk of ACS in IIM remained increased with a cumulative incidence of 7% at 5 years compared to 3.3% in the general population.

Conclusion. IIM individuals are at higher risk of ACS, particularly within the first year after diagnosis.

Key Indexing Terms:
  • DERMATOMYOSITIS
  • POLYMYOSITIS
  • ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of chronic autoimmune multisystemic diseases often characterized by muscle inflammation and muscle weakness. The major IIM subsets are dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), inclusion body myositis (IBM), and immune-mediated necrotizing myopathies1. Morbidity and mortality are still higher in IIM than in the general population despite advances in the field and introduction of novel therapies2,3. Evidence suggests an increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) disease, such as arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in IIM individuals4,5,6,7,8,9. The burden of CV diseases is of major concern in several rheumatologic conditions, notably rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus10,11. In IIM, the higher prevalence of traditional CV risk factors coupled with a chronic inflammatory state and possibly vasculitis could account for an added ACS risk12,13,14,15. A majority of published studies to date have investigated the risk of ACS in prevalent IIM cohorts that lacked comparators and/or used combined CV endpoints4,5,6,7. A previous Canadian population-based study reported a 3- to 4-fold increased risk of myocardial infarction in individuals with DM and PM after adjustment for medication use9. However, unstable angina was not considered, stratification for sex or age was not included, and the effect of time on myocardial infarction incidence was assessed only up to 5 years after diagnosis. The aim of the present study was to investigate the risk of ACS in a large incident IIM cohort compared to the general Swedish population.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Study design

This population-based cohort study includes patients with incident IIM (exposed) and matched comparators from the general population (unexposed).

Setting

The Swedish healthcare coverage is universal; thus all residents have access to publicly funded inpatient and outpatient healthcare. IIM individuals are usually diagnosed and followed by internists, rheumatologists, dermatologists, or neurologists practicing in hospital-based settings. The unique personal identification number given to all residents enables data retrieval from national administrative databases and clinical registries, with linkage of demographic, morbidity, and mortality data.

Study population

The Swedish National Patient Register (NPR; 1964–2012) indexes data on hospitalizations from 1987 and outpatient visits from 2001. Clinicians are allowed to allocate a main diagnosis and up to 10 contributory diagnoses for each hospitalization. The NPR coverage is almost universal for hospitalizations, and most patients with IIM (95%) are followed by hospital-based specialists, resulting in a high coverage of outpatient visits in that population. The adult (≥ 18 yrs) incident IIM cohort was identified from the NPR using the International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) codes for IIM (juvenile DM M33.0, DM M33.1, PM M33.2, 33.9, and IBM G72.4). The IIM case definition used in this study was used in previous publications and showed a positive predictive value (PPV) and a sensitivity of > 85% for all ICD codes except IBM16,17. Based on this algorithm, to be included in our cohort an individual was required to have (1) ≥ 2 visits indexed with an IIM diagnosis by a specialist (dermatologist, internist, neurologist, or rheumatologist); (2) an initial visit between 2002 and 2011; and (3) a followup visit within 1 year listing an IIM code. We had access to data from 2001 to 2012, allowing us to exclude prevalent IIM cases that had received an IIM code in the year prior to the study period (2001) while following up on cases included in 2011. This approach accurately identified individuals with DM, but PM and IBM are considered together under “other IIM” because of coding overlap. Each patient with IIM was matched up to 1:10 on age, sex, and place of residence with randomly selected individuals from the general population identified through the Swedish Population Register. Comparators were required to be alive and residing in Sweden at the index date of their matched patient with IIM. This study received approval from the Regional Ethical Committee of Stockholm (2017/2000-31).

Definition of outcome

The primary outcome was the occurrence of the first-ever ACS during followup period. ICD-10 codes used to identify ACS from hospitalization records as primary discharge diagnosis and cause of death register were I20.0 for unstable angina and I21 (all subcategories) for acute myocardial infarction including non-ST-elevation (NSTEMI) and ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI; Supplementary Table 1, available with the online version of this article). ACS identification using ICD codes has been shown to be valid, and the definition of ACS used in this study previously showed a PPV of 95%18,19. All individuals with a history of ACS at baseline were excluded.

Covariates

Sex and date of birth were extracted from the Swedish Population Register. Presence of CV comorbidities and risk factors at baseline were identified using in- and outpatient visits from the NPR indicating either stroke (I61, I63), atrial fibrillation (I48), stable angina (I20.9), heart failure (I42, I50), diabetes (E10, E11), and/or hypertension (I10, I11, I12, I13, I15) in the year preceding the index date20,21,22,23,24. In addition, the Prescribed Drug Register (PDR), including data on prescriptions filled across Sweden since 2006, was used to identify individuals treated for CV diseases or risk factors, and those exposed to medications that increase CV risk in the 6 months preceding the index date. The PDR was also used to determine immunosuppressive therapies received ± 2 months from index date (Supplementary Table 2, available with the online version of this article). Educational level was retrieved from the Longitudinal Integration Database for Health Insurance and Labour Market Studies and was used as a measure of socioeconomic status25.

Index date and followup

The date of the second visit recorded was considered the index date in the IIM cohort. The followup started at this point and ended at first ACS, first emigration, death, or December 31, 2013, whichever occurred first.

Statistical analyses

Descriptive statistics were used to summarize characteristics of individuals with IIM and general population comparators at baseline and at first ACS. Crude incidence rates per 1000 person-years (PY) were calculated by dividing the number of ACS events by the followup period and were stratified by sex, age at diagnosis, and IIM subsets. CI were calculated assuming a Poisson distribution using the exact method26. The association between IIM and ACS was estimated using Cox proportional hazards models and expressed as HR. This approach considers that ACS and death are independent, while they are in fact competing. To account for the competing risk of death, the subdistribution HR (sd-HR) and cumulative incidences of ACS at 1, 5, and 10 years for both groups were estimated using Fine and Gray competing risk regression models27. All models were adjusted for age at index date as a continuous variable, birth year, year of IIM diagnosis, sex, and residential area. To determine whether the risk of ACS was higher at diagnosis, HR of ACS stratified by time since index date (< 1, 1–5, 5–12 yrs) were obtained using time-dependent covariates. A p value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. All analyses were performed using SAS software package version 9.4 (SAS Institute), R version 3.3.3 (R Foundation for Statistical Computing), and STATA IC 11.2 (StataCorp).

RESULTS

We included 655 incident IIM individuals and 6813 age- and sex-matched general population comparators. Sixty-one patients with IIM and 287 comparators were excluded given prior ACS. Baseline characteristics of both groups are presented in Table 1. Fifty-six percent were women and one-third of the patients had DM. The prevalence of atrial fibrillation and hypertension was slightly lower in the general population comparators than in patients with IIM. The subgroup of individuals with available medication data revealed a higher proportion of IIM subjects exposed to CV drugs than the comparators (Table 2). The use of statins or fibrates was however lower in the patients with IIM, but a higher proportion of them were exposed to acetylsalicylic acid. As expected, a large proportion of the IIM group received immunosuppressive drugs around the index date. Fifty-three ACS occurred in the IIM group compared to 313 in the general population with a similar age and sex distribution (Table 3). Patients with IIM experienced their first ACS sooner in the followup period than the comparators [median (interquartile range) 2.4 (1.0–4.6) vs 3.5 (1.8–6.0) yrs)].

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Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of incident IIM cases and matched general population comparators.

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Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of incident IIM cases and matched general population comparators with available medication records.

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Table 3.

Characteristics of study population at first acute coronary syndrome.

Incidence rate of ACS

The crude incidence rate for ACS in the IIM cohort was 15.6 (95% CI 11.7–20.4) per 1000 PY, and 7.5 (95% CI 6.7–8.4) per 1000 PY in the general population (Table 4). The age- and sex-adjusted rate difference was 5.7 (95% CI 2.2–9.3). The incidence rates of NSTEMI and STEMI were higher in the IIM group. In the general population, ACS incidence rates were higher in males, and in older individuals. In the IIM group, older subjects and those with inflammatory myopathies other than DM had the highest incidence rates. In contrast with the general population, incidence rates in women and men were similar in the exposed group.

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Table 4.

Number of ACS, followup, incidence rates, rate differences, and HR for ACS overall and stratified by sex, age group, and IIM subset for all the patients with IIM and matched general population comparators included in the study.

Association between IIM and ACS

The overall age-, sex-, and residential area–adjusted HR comparing the IIM cohort and the general population was 2.4 (95% CI 1.8–3.2). The increased relative risk was highest in women, in the 68- to 90-year-old subgroup and in the “other IIM” group compared with the general population (Table 4). The relative risk of ACS in patients with DM was similar to the general population. When stratified by time since diagnosis, the HR for ACS was highest within a year from IIM diagnosis (HR 3.6, 95% CI 1.9–6.7) and decreasing thereafter (Table 5). When the association of IIM and ACS was estimated by a competing risk model, considering death the competing event, the overall sd-HR was 1.9 (95% CI 1.4–2.5). The cumulative incidence of ACS estimated using Fine and Gray competing risk models adjusted for age, sex, and place of residence at 1, 5, and 10 years was 2% (95% CI 1.2–3.4), 7.0% (95% CI 5.2–9.5), and 12.0% (95% CI 8.9–16) in the IIM cohort, and 0.62% (0.46–0.83), 3.3% (2.9–3.8) and 6.9% (6.1–7.8) in the general population, respectively.

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Table 5.

Number of ACS, followup, and HR for ACS stratified by time since diagnosis for patients with IIM and general population comparators.

DISCUSSION

In this large population-based nationwide study looking at ACS risk in IIM, we found an increased incidence and relative risk of ACS in IIM individuals compared with the general population. In our IIM cohort, the ACS incidence rate was 15.6 (95% CI 11.7–20.4) per 1000 PY and the HR 2.4 (95% CI 1.8–3.2) for IIM compared to general population comparators. Because patients with IIM have a significantly higher early mortality rate compared with the general population, it is important to take death into account when interpreting their risk of experiencing an ACS3. When accounting for the competing risk of early death, the sd-HR of ACS in our IIM cohort remained increased at 1.9 (95% CI 1.4–2.5), with a cumulative incidence of ACS of 7% at 5 years compared to 3.3% in the general population. In a Canadian cohort study, a similar ACS incidence rate was found in patients with PM/DM (13.8/1000 PY), with an ACS relative risk of 1.95 (95% CI 1.35–2.72) compared with the general population7. The risk of ACS in this study was highest in the first year after diagnosis and decreased in the subsequent years, similar to our results. We can hypothesize that some factors in the period following diagnosis such as introduction of immunosuppression or higher IIM disease activity might influence ACS risk. Further studies are necessary, however, to elucidate why this period is critical in the development of ACS in IIM. In our study, after IIM subset stratification, a 2-fold ACS risk increase was seen only in patients with IIM who were not affected by DM. These results differ from a previous large population-based study reporting HR for myocardial infarction in PM of 3.89 (95% CI 2.28–6.65) and in DM of 2.92 (95% CI 1.48–5.78)9. The discrepancy between our results could not be explained simply by differences in case and outcome definitions but could be due to the small number of events (n = 8) recorded in this subgroup.

In our study, a higher proportion of IIM individuals were receiving medication to treat CV diseases at baseline compared to the general population. However, IIM individuals were less exposed to statins and/or fibrates. Myalgias and mild elevation of serum creatinine kinase are frequent side effects of statins28. In certain IIM individuals at the early stage of disease, statins might be discontinued for suspicion of statin-induced muscle toxicity and might not be reintroduced afterward. This might affect the ACS risk in the IIM population. Even if medication data were available for only 60% of our cases/controls and could not be used in our model, we consider this sample representative and comparable to the rest of the cohort.

When comparing our IIM cohort with the general population, a 3-fold increase in ACS relative risk was observed in elderly and female IIM individuals. To our knowledge, this is the first study to report a sex difference in the risk of developing ACS in patients with IIM when compared with the general population. Even if the crude incidences were similar between males and females, the relative risk of ACS when compared with the general population was clearly higher in females. In a Swedish population-based RA study, such a sex difference in ACS risk was not found29. Despite being exposed to a similar inflammatory state, female patients with RA in the aforementioned study had a lower incidence rate of ACS compared to males. In our study, both sexes have similar incidence rates, suggesting that the mechanisms underlying ACS in the IIM population could differ from other rheumatologic diseases. This notion should also be taken into consideration when clinicians consider cardiac risk stratification in that population. Histopathologic data revealed that 40% of IIM individuals have myocarditis on autopsy, a condition that might be clinically difficult to differentiate from an ACS without advanced imaging such as cardiac magnetic resonance30. In addition, a previous cross-sectional study of 47 patients with PM/DM described myocardial inflammation in 60% of them31. Even if those individuals were not all considered to have myocarditis, myocardial inflammation may surely influence ACS diagnosis in that population. The distinction between those 2 conditions is important, however, because myocarditis requires aggressive immunosuppression.

This is one of the largest population-based studies to assess ACS risk in an incident IIM cohort that included patients with IBM. The inclusion of this particular subset might underestimate the ACS incidence rate in the “other IIM” subgroup. Evidence suggests that cardiac abnormalities are not increased in IBM compared to elderly individuals32. To our knowledge, cardiac involvement in IBM at disease onset has never been assessed, probably owing to the usually long delay before diagnosis. This underlines a limitation of our study, in which coding overlap limited our ability to divide our IIM cases into the different classic IIM subgroups (PM, DM, IBM). The large “other IIM” subgroup is therefore heterogeneous, and most likely contains subsets that are more at risk of ACS than others. Even if we based our case ascertainment on a robust case definition for IIM, there is still a risk of misclassification given that our IIM cases were not confirmed by imaging or histopathology. Additionally, diagnosis is often delayed in IIM, with patients developing symptoms several years before diagnosis. Our approach was to exclude those subjects who might have had their ACS in their “latency period,” which would underestimate the ACS risk in our cohort. It is possible that some comorbidities such as hypertension and atrial fibrillation were detected more frequently in patients with IIM as a result of a surveillance bias. Administrative data also did not allow for stratification by autoantibody status. Phenotypes based on autoantibody profiles are characterized by different extramuscular involvement and might be associated with different ACS risk. Smoking and obesity are known risk factors for CV disease and are important confounders in this type of study, but were not available for inclusion in our analyses.

This large population-based study clearly demonstrates an increased risk of ACS in IIM, particularly in the year following diagnosis and in older individuals. Future collaborative studies are needed to understand the mechanisms underlying ACS in IIM, taking in consideration IIM subsets and autoantibody profiles.

ONLINE SUPPLEMENT

Supplementary material accompanies the online version of this article.

Footnotes

  • Dr. Lundberg was supported by grants from the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Rheumatism Association, King Gustaf V 80 Year Foundation, and the Stockholm County Council (ALF project). Dr. Holmqvist was supported by grants from the Swedish Rheumatism Association, the King Gustaf V 60 Year Foundation, the Nanna Svartz Foundation, and the Stockholm County Council (ALF project).

  • Accepted for publication February 26, 2019.

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