Adults With Atopic Dermatitis May Have Significantly Higher Prevalence Of Anxiety, Depression, And OCD Across All Severities Of The Skin Disorder, Researchers Conclude

MedPage Today (10/12, Bankhead) reports, “Adults with atopic dermatitis (AD) had a significantly higher prevalence of anxiety, depression, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) across all severities of the skin disorder,” investigators concluded in findings from “a large retrospective analysis” published online in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. The study “identified 625,083 adults with AD, who were matched to 2,678,888 adults without AD.”

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