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Record W4407285583 · doi:10.1093/jcag/gwae059.206

A206 COMBINED EFFECT OF TOBACCO SMOKING AND ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE USE ON THE RISK OF INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE

2025· article· en· W4407285583 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMicroscopic Colitis
Canadian institutionsCentre Hospitalier Universitaire Sainte-JustineInstitut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineInflammatory bowel diseaseTobacco useDiseaseInflammatory Bowel DiseasesEnvironmental healthInternal medicineGastroenterologyPopulation

Abstract

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Abstract Background Tobacco and oral contraceptives are involved in the development of inflammatory bowel disease through their effect on the intestinal immune system. Oral contraceptives may modify the effect of tobacco by increasing nicotine absorption. Aims We investigated the independent and combined effects of smoking and oral contraceptives use on the occurrence of Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC). Methods This case-control study, nested within the Quebec Birth Cohort on Immunity and Health (CO-MMUNITY), included persons born in Quebec in 1970-1974 and followed until 2014. Cases of CD and UC were identified using validated algorithms based on administrative health data. All cases and randomly selected controls were invited to participate. Smoking and oral contraceptive use were documented using self-reported questionnaires. We used weighted incidence density sampling to treat time-dependent variables. We performed weighted Cox proportional hazards models to estimate adjusted hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). All multiple regression models were adjusted for relevant covariates identified using directed acyclic graphs. Additive and multiplicative interactions between smoking and oral contraceptive use were assessed. Results Among the participating women, there were 590 controls, 790 cases of CD and 336 cases of UC. The median (interquartile range) age at IBD diagnosis was years 24.7 (20.7-30.5) for CD cases and 26.2 years (21.5-31.9) for UC cases. Forty-three percent of controls were ever smokers compared to 59% of CD cases and 45% of UC cases. Most participants (~91% per strata) used oral contraceptives. Smoking increased the risk of CD (adjusted HR=1.68; 95% CI: 1.35-2.09) and decreased the risk of UC (adjusted HR=0.56; 95% CI: 0.40-0.77). Oral contraceptive use increased the risk of CD by 33% (adjusted HR=1.33; 95% CI: 1.10-1.61) but not UC (adjusted HR=1.09; 95% CI: 0.84-1.41). There was an increased risk of CD in smokers who used oral contraceptives compared to non-smokers and non-users of oral contraceptives (adjusted HR=2.23; 95% CI: 1.66-2.98). The association between smoking and CD did not differ by oral contraceptive use (p for multiplicative interaction: 0.9; p for additive interaction: 0.6) or ulcerative colitis (p for multiplicative interaction: 0.1; p for additive interaction: 0.4). Conclusions Our results suggest independent effects of smoking and oral contraceptive use on the occurrence of CD and UC. Although the risk of CD was higher in women who smoked and used oral contraceptives, no additive or multiplicative interactions were found for either CD or UC. Funding Agencies CIHRCanada Foundation for Innovation & the Québec Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sports (#12532), Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé (FRQS, #16227), Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada (#2435), Institut de la statistique du Québec, Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé (#326758), Fonds de recherche du Québec-Nature Technologie (#334829), Regroupement intersectoriel de recherche en santé de l’Université du Québec, Quebec inter-University Centre for Social Statistics, Fondation de l’INRS

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.078
Threshold uncertainty score0.934

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.226
Teacher spread0.222 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it