Association between AD and increased risk for chronic kidney disease seen for men and women and in all age groups
By Elana Gotkine HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, July 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Atopic dermatitis (AD) was associated with an increased risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD) in an Asian population, according to a study published online July 10 in the Journal of Dermatology.
Hsi-Chih Chen, from the Tri-Service General Hospital at the National Defense Medical Center in Taipei, Taiwan, and colleagues conducted a nationwide, longitudinal study to examine the correlation between AD and the risk for CKD using data from Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database. A total of 15,179 individuals with AD were identified and compared to 60,716 age- and sex-matched individuals without AD.
The researchers found that after adjustment for potential confounders, patients with AD had an elevated risk for CKD compared with the non-AD comparison cohort (adjusted odds ratio, 1.30). In both men and women and in all age groups, the association between AD and an increased risk for CKD was evident. There was a trend toward increasing odds ratios seen with increasing frequency of clinical visits for AD.
“Our findings remained robust in subgroup analyses, which demonstrate that a positive association exists between AD and CKD risk in both genders and in all age groups,” the authors write. “The clinical implications of the present study merit further investigation.”
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