Under-diagnosis of atopic dermatitis in Puerto Rican children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Little is known about atopic dermatitis (AD) among children in Puerto Rico.

Objective

To examine risk factors and identify approaches to better diagnose AD in Puerto Rican children.

Methods

Case-control study of AD among 540 children aged 6-14 years in San Juan, Puerto Rico. AD was defined as: 1) physician-diagnosed AD, 2) RAST-AD: AD symptoms plus ≥1 positive IgE to allergens, and 3) STR-AD: AD-symptoms and skin test reactivity to ≥1 allergen. Logistic regression was used for the multivariable analysis. We also evaluated the diagnostic performance of various approaches by comparing their sensitivity, specificity, positive predicted value [PPV], negative predictive value [NPV], and area under curve [AUC]).

Results

Of the 70 children with STR-AD, only

SUBMITTER: Yang G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6439410 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature