Incident alopecia areata and vitiligo in adult women with atopic dermatitis: Nurses’ Health Study 2

摘要

We aimed to determine the risk of AA and vitiligo associated with AD in a large cohort of US women, the Nurses’ Health Study 2. We used logistic regression to calculate age- and multivariate-adjusted odds ratios to determine the risk of incident AA and vitiligo associated with AD diagnosed in or before 2009. A total of 87,406 and 87,447 participants were included in the AA and vitiligo analyses, respectively. A history of AD in 2009 was reported in 11% of participants. There were 147 incident cases of AA and 98 incident cases of vitiligo over 2 years of follow-up. AD was associated with increased risk of developing AA (OR 1.80, 95% CI 1.18–2.76) and vitiligo (OR 2.14, 95% CI 1.29–3.54) in multivariate models. In this study of US women, AD was associated with increased risk of incident vitiligo and AA in adulthood.