Epidemiology of Atopic Dermatitis

TY - CHAP

T1 - Epidemiology of Atopic Dermatitis

AU - Flohr, Carsten

AU - Williams, Hywel C.G.

PY - 2011/5/24

Y1 - 2011/5/24

N2 - Interest in the epidemiology of atopic dermatitis has risen in recent years because the disease prevalence is on the increase, and because atopic dermatitis can be a very miserable and costly long-term condition. Since atopic dermatitis tends to be the first allergic disease to develop in early life, an increasing number of birth cohorts have studied the condition alongside food allergies, hay fever, and asthma in order to understand the relationship between these diseases. This chapter provides an overview of the epidemiology of atopic dermatitis, highlighting some of the important developments and gaps in current knowledge from classical descriptive epidemiology to immunological and genetic findings in cohort studies.

AB - Interest in the epidemiology of atopic dermatitis has risen in recent years because the disease prevalence is on the increase, and because atopic dermatitis can be a very miserable and costly long-term condition. Since atopic dermatitis tends to be the first allergic disease to develop in early life, an increasing number of birth cohorts have studied the condition alongside food allergies, hay fever, and asthma in order to understand the relationship between these diseases. This chapter provides an overview of the epidemiology of atopic dermatitis, highlighting some of the important developments and gaps in current knowledge from classical descriptive epidemiology to immunological and genetic findings in cohort studies.

KW - Atopic dermatitis

KW - Epidemiology

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84886579193&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/9781444345384.ch22

DO - 10.1002/9781444345384.ch22

M3 - Chapter

AN - SCOPUS:84886579193

SN - 9781405176958

VL - 1

SP - 1

EP - 15

BT - Harper's Textbook of Pediatric Dermatology

PB - WILEY-BLACKWELL

ER -