Research Article

Clinical Characteristics and Prognosis of Concomitant Primary Biliary Cholangitis and Autoimmune Diseases: A Retrospective Study

Table 1

Clinical comorbidities in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (n = 505).

History of comorbiditiesNumber of PBC patients, n (%)

Hashimoto’s thyroiditis1 (0.2)
Graves’s thyroiditis3 (0.6)
Autoimmune hepatitis36 (7.1)
Sjögren’s syndrome133 (26.3)
Hypothyroidism4 (0.8)
Rheumatoid arthritis7 (1.4)
SLE2 (0.4)
AIH + SS3 (0.6)
SS + SLE1 (0.2)
SS + rheumatoid arthritis1 (0.2)
AIH + Hashimoto’s thyroiditis1 (0.2)
SS + hypothyroidism1 (0.2)
AIH + SS + RA1 (0.2)

PBC: primary biliary cirrhosis. AIH: autoimmune hepatitis. SS: Sjögren’s syndrome. RA: rheumatoid arthritis. SLE: systemic lupus erythematosus.