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- Title
Cardiovascular comorbidities of atopic dermatitis: using National Health Insurance data in Korea.
- Authors
Jung, Hye Jung; Lee, Dong Heon; Park, Mi Youn; Ahn, Jiyoung
- Abstract
Background: It is well known that atopic dermatitis (AD) is associated with other allergic diseases. Recentely, links to diseases other than allergic disease have also been actively studied. Among them, the results of studies regarding AD comorbidities, especially cardiovascular disease (CVD), have varied from country to country. Objective: To analyze whether the risk of CVD is different between AD patients and healthy controls using Korean National Health Insurance Data. Methods: We obtained data from 2005 to 2016 from the Korean National Health Insurance Research Database. Patients with one AD code and two AD-related tests codes were selected as AD patients, and age-and sex-matched controls to the AD patients were selected from among those without AD (1:5). Each group was investigated for accompanying metabolic syndrome (which contains hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and hyperlipidemia) and CVD (angina, myocardial infarction, peripheral vascular disease, and stroke) using ICD 10 codes. Results: The incidence of metabolic diseases and CVD were significantly different between the AD and control groups. Using multivariable Cox regression, differences were adjusted for sex, age, and other CVD and metabolic diseases. As a result, not only metabolic disease, but also the CVD risk of AD patients was significantly higher than that of the control group. Patients with AD had as significantly higher risk of hyperlipidemia (hazard ratio [HR] = 33.02, p < 0.001), hypertension (HR = 4.86, p < 0.001), and type 2 diabetes (HR = 2.96, p < 0.001). AD patients also had a higher risk of stroke (HR = 10.61, p < 0.001), myocardial infarction (HR = 9.43, p < 0.001), angina (HR = 5.99, p < 0.001), and peripheral vascular disease (HR = 2.46, p < 0.001). Besides hyperlipidemia, there was no difference in risk according to AD severity. Conclusion: Patients with AD have a greater risk of CVD than those without AD.
- Subjects
SOUTH Korea; NATIONAL health insurance; ATOPIC dermatitis; PERIPHERAL vascular diseases; COMORBIDITY; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; ALLERGIES; TYPE 2 diabetes
- Publication
Allergy, Asthma & Clinical Immunology, 2021, Vol 17, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1710-1484
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s13223-021-00590-x