Increased risk of endometriosis in patients with endometritis — a nationwide cohort study involving 84,150 individuals

Objectives: To evaluate the incidence of endometriosis among endometritis patients and its association with confounding comorbidities.

A population-based, retrospective cohort study of women aged between 20 to 55 years, who were newly diagnosed with endometritis between 2000 to 2013. A total of 16,830 endometritis patients and 67,230 non-endometritis individuals were enrolled by accessing data from the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan. The comorbidities accessed were uterine leiomyoma, rheumatoid arthritis, ovarian cancer, infertility and allergic diseases.

The mean follow-up period was 9.15 years for the non-endometritis cohort and 9.13 years for the endometritis cohort. There were significantly higher percentages of uterine leiomyoma, rheumatoid arthritis, infertility, ovarian cancer and allergic diseases in the endometritis cohort than in the non-endometritis cohort. Patients with endometritis had a 1.5-fold increased risk of their condition advancing to endometriosis (HR 1.58, 95% CI 1.48–1.68).

Our results suggest that patients with endometritis exhibited a positive correlation in developing endometriosis.

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