Patients with inflammatory bowel disease have an increased risk of myocardial infarction: a nationwide study

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is accompanied by various extraintestinal manifestations including systemic inflammation and hypercoagulability, which may increase the risk of atherosclerosis and ischaemic heart disease.To investigate whether IBD is associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction (MI), stroke or death METHODS: The International Classification of Disease, 10th edition codes and the claim codes for rare diseases were...