Atopic dermatitis and skin diseaseAdult eczema prevalence and associations with asthma and other health and demographic factors: A US population–based study
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NHIS
The 2010 NHIS was collected by the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is the principal source of information on the health of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States. The questionnaire included a separate core module with questions to estimate the prevalence of various adult health issues. The survey was administered in person to selected households by approximately 400 trained interviewers of the Bureau of the
Prevalence of eczema and atopic disease
Data were collected on a total of 27,157 adults including sufficient representation of all age, sex, and racial/ethnic groups. Overall, the US prevalence of eczema in adults was 10.2% (95% CI, 9.7% to 10.6%; Fig 1). In particular, 3.2% (95% CI, 2.9% to 3.4%) of the adult population had EAH, as defined by a 1-year history of eczema with either ever having a history of asthma, 1-year history of hay fever, or both, whereas 0.5% (95% CI, 0.4% to 0.6%) had eczema, asthma, and hay fever.
Overall, the
Discussion
By using a population-based approach, the present study found a 10.2% 1-year prevalence of eczema and 3.2% prevalence of AD in US adults. There are no recent US population–based studies of adult eczema per se to compare or contrast with the present study. Hanifin and Reed6 performed a questionnaire-based study of eczema prevalence in a sample of 116,202 subjects in 42,249 US households. They found that 10.7% and 6% had empirically defined eczema and AD, respectively. However, that study’s
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