Keloid risk in patients with atopic dermatitis: a nationwide retrospective cohort study in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The pathogenesis of keloid is largely unknown. Because keloid and atopic dermatitis have overlapping pathophysiological mechanisms, we aimed to evaluate keloid risk in patients with atopic dermatitis.

Study design

Population-based retrospective cohort study.

Setting

The Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database was used to analyse data for people who had been diagnosed with atopic dermatitis.

Participants

We identified 8371 patients with newly diagnosed atopic dermatitis during 1996-2010. An additional 33 484 controls without atopic dermatitis were randomly identified and frequency matched at a one-to-four ratio.

Primary and secondary outcome measure

The association between atopic dermatitis and keloid risk was estimated using Cox prop

SUBMITTER: Lu YY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6059319 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature