Lifetime Allergy Symptoms in IgG4-Related Disease: A Case-Control Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The etiology of IgG4-related disease (IgG4-RD) is unknown, and there has been controversy over the significance of allergic conditions in IgG4-RD. We examined the prevalence of lifetime allergy symptoms in IgG4-RD and the association between these and IgG4-RD.

Methods

We identified IgG4-RD patients and non-IgG4-RD controls without autoimmune conditions seen at a single center. IgG4-RD patients were classified using the American College of Rheumatology/European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology classification criteria. Allergy symptoms were ascertained by questionnaire. We assessed the association of IgG4-RD features with allergy symptoms. We compared the proportion of cases and controls with allergy symptoms using conditional logistic regression to estimate

SUBMITTER: Sanders S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8214630 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature