Atopic dermatitis epidemiology

Williams H, Flohr C How epidemiology has challenged three prevailing concepts about atopic dermatitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2006 118 209-213. 

Another factor to consider is that patients with endogenous skin disease are frequently more susceptible to cosmetic reactions. One reason is that patients with preexisting skin disease may have skin barrier dysfunction, with consequent increased permeability. Skin hyper-reactivity in atopic patients, particularly, has been gathering interest in recent years. Epidemiologic associations between atopic dermatitis and irritant dermatitis are now supported by skin bioengineering data.25... 

Sicherer, S.H. and Sampson, H.A. 1999. Food hypersensitivity and atopic dermatitis pathophysiology, epidemiology, diagnosis and management. J Allergy Clin Immunol 104 114-122. 

Schultz-Larsen F The epidemiology of atopic dermatitis in Burr M (ed) Epidemiology of Clinical Allergy Basel, Karger, 1993, pp 9-28. 

Levy RM, Gelfand JM, Yan AC. The epidemiology of atopic dermatitis. Clin Dermatol 2003 21 109-115. 

Hanatin JM. Epidemiology of atopic dermatitis. Immunol Allergy Clin North Am 2002 22 1-24. 

Oh JW, Pyun BY, Choung JT, et al. (2004). Epidemiological change of atopic dermatitis and food allergy in school-aged children in Korea between 1995 and 2000. J. Korean Med. Set, 19 716-723. 

Pelucchi, C., Chatenoud, L., Turati, R, Galeone, C., Moja, L., Bach, J. R, et al. (2012). Probiotics supplementation during pregnancy or infancy for the prevention of atopic dermatitis a meta-analysis. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.), 23(3), 402-414. 

Diepgen TL, Fartasch M (1992) Recent epidemiological and genetic studies in atopic dermatitis. Acta Derm Venereol 176 13-18... 

Rystedt I (1985) Hand eczema and long-term prognosis in atopic dermatitis. Acta Derm Venereol Suppl (Stocldi) 117 1-59 Schubert H, Berova N, Czernielewski A, et al. (1987) Epidemiology of nickel allergy. Contact Dermatitis 16 122-128 Shah M, Lewis FM, Gawkrodger DJ (1996) Prognosis of occupational hand dermatitis in metalworkers. Contact Dermatitis 34 27-30... 

Schultz Larsen F. Atopic dermatitis a genetic-epidemiologic study in a population-based twin sample. J Am Acad Dermatol 1993 28(5 Pt l) 719-723. 

For example, the incidence of occupational contact dermatitis was assessed in different occupations in a population-based study (Fig. 1). The risk resulting from exposure to wet work (Lammintausta et al. 1982) and exposure to permanent wave solutions was determined (liter et al. 1995), atopic diatheses was proven to be an endogenous risk factor (Diepgen 1991), and preventive actions were taken in hairdressers, known to be frequently affected by contact dermatitis (Schwanitz et al. 1996). Comprehensive reviews on the epidemiology of (occupational and non-occupational) contact dermatitis have been published (Smit and Coenraads 1993 Schnuch 1994). 

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