1. Concurrent Eosinophilia Increases the Prevalence of Nail Abnormalities and Severity of Hair Loss in Patients With Alopecia Areata.
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Damiani, Giovanni, Gironi, Laura Cristina, Conic, Rosalynn R. Z., del Fabbro, Massimo, Savoia, Paola, Fiore, Marco, Bergfeld, Wilma F., and Aga, Syed Sameer
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ALOPECIA areata , *SCIENTIFIC observation , *SEX distribution , *BALDNESS , *SEVERITY of illness index , *RETROSPECTIVE studies , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *AGE distribution , *FAMILY history (Medicine) , *ODDS ratio , *RACE , *AGE factors in disease , *EOSINOPHILIA , *MEDICAL records , *ACQUISITION of data , *AUTOIMMUNE diseases , *COMPARATIVE studies , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *NAIL diseases , *PHENOTYPES , *DISEASE complications - Abstract
Background: The potential link between alopecia areata (AA) and eosinophilia is unclear, as well as its clinical manifestations in these patients' subsets. Methods: This is a monocentric retrospective observational study in which clinical and laboratory data were summarized and evaluated the AA subset with concurrent eosinophilia. Results: In a sample of 205 AA patients, 38 (18.5%) were classified as AA with eosinophilia. Interestingly, this subset of patients had a statistically higher prevalence of atopia and nail abnormalities (p < 0.05) than AA without eosinophilia. AA patients with eosinophilia had a 3.70 higher odds of more severe hair loss versus age‐ and gender‐matched AA without eosinophilia. Conclusions: AA patients with eosinophilia had distinctive clinical and laboratory characteristics, so future studies may potentially explore the use of IL‐5 inhibitors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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