Research suggests 42 percent rise in UK eczema diagnoses between 2001 and 2005.
(3/23, Wilkinson) reports that, according to a
published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, "there was a 42 percent rise in" eczema diagnoses in the UK "between 2001 and 2005, by which time it was estimated to effect 5.7 million adults and children." For the study, researchers from the University of Edinburgh analyzed the primary-care "records of over nine million patients." The team found that "by 2005, one in nine of the population had, at some point, been affected by eczema," with the "highest rate" being found "in boys aged between five and nine." In addition, prescriptions to treat the condition "increased by 57 percent over the five-year study period." The authors theorized that "eczema is a herald condition for individuals to go on to develop other allergic conditions, such as asthma and allergic rhinitis," and attributed the rise in diagnoses partly to "environmental factors," such as "bathing, and use of soaps and detergents."
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