| アブストラクト | BACKGROUND: Thrombocytosis is an excess of platelets, which is diagnosed as a platelet count >400 x 10(9)/l. An association of thrombocytosis with undiagnosed cancer has recently been established, but the association with non-malignant disease has not been studied in primary care. AIM: To examine, in English primary care, the 1-year incidence of non-malignant diseases in patients with new thrombocytosis and the incidence of pre-existing non-malignant diseases in patients who develop new thrombocytosis. DESIGN AND SETTING: Prospective cohort study using English Clinical Practice Research Datalink data from 2000 to 2013. METHOD: Newly incident and pre-existing rates of non-malignant diseases associated with thrombocytosis were compared between patients with thrombocytosis and age- and sex-matched patients with a normal platelet count. Fifteen candidate non-malignant diseases were identified from literature searches. RESULTS: In the thrombocytosis cohort of 39 850 patients, 4579 (11.5%) were newly diagnosed with any one of the candidate diseases, compared with 443 out of 9684 patients (4.6%) in the normal platelet count cohort (relative risk [RR] 2.5, 95% confidence intervals [CI] = 2.3 to 2.8); iron-deficiency anaemia was the most common new diagnosis (4.5% of patients with thrombocytosis, RR 4.9, 95% CI = 4.0 to 6.1). A total of 22 612 (57.0%) patients with thrombocytosis had a pre-existing non-malignant diagnosis compared with 4846 patients (50%) in the normal platelet count cohort (odds ratio 1.3, 95% CI = 1.2 to 1.4). There was no statistically significant difference in cancer diagnoses between patients with and without pre-existing disease in the thrombocytosis cohort. CONCLUSION: Thrombocytosis is associated with several non-malignant diseases. Clinicians can use these findings as part of their holistic diagnostic approach to help guide further investigations and management of patients with thrombocytosis. |
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| ジャーナル名 | The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners |
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| 投稿日 | 2020/11/18 |
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| 投稿者 | Clarke, Cansu; Hamilton, Willie; Price, Sarah; Bailey, Sarah Er |
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| 組織名 | University of Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care and the South West;Peninsula Deanery, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter.;DISCO Cancer Diagnostics Group, University of Exeter Medical School, College;House, St Luke's Campus, University of Exeter, Exeter. |
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| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33199294/ |
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