All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality Risks Associated With Alopecia Areata: A Korean Nationwide Population-Based Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Alopecia areata is associated with diverse systemic and psychiatric diseases. However, whether all-cause and cause-specific mortality in patients with alopecia areata differs from that of the general population remains unclear.

Objective

To investigate all-cause and cause-specific mortality risk in patients with alopecia areata.

Design, setting, and participants

Using the National Health Insurance Service database and National Death Registry of Korea, a retrospective cohort study of participants identified in 2006, with investigation of mortality until 2016, was carried out. Patients with alopecia areata with at least 3 documented visits to a dermatologist with an International Statistical Classification of Diseases (tenth revision) code of L63 during 2002

SUBMITTER: Lee S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6547083 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature