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Basic Epidemiology Concepts Relevant in Contact Urticaria

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Contact Urticaria Syndrome

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Epidemiology is concerned with public health and prevention. Immediate-contact reactions such as contact urticaria are common in general medicine, dermatology, and occupational medicine. Although accurate epidemiological data on contact urticaria are scarce, the Global Burden of Disease Project 2016 shows that urticaria is among the ten leading skin and subcutaneous diseases with highest prevalence, incidence, and morbidity measured by terms of years lived with disability and disability-adjusted life-years.

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    Bayesian metaregression tool DisMod-MR 2.1 was used to combine all available sources of information for a specific disease.

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    95% Uncertainty intervals (95% UI): it is derived from 1000 draws from the posterior distribution of each step in the estimation process, capturing uncertainty from multiple modeling steps, as well as from sources such as model estimation and model specification, rather than from sampling error alone. For estimation of prevalence, incidence, and YLDs, UIs incorporated variability from sample sizes within data sources, adjustments to data to account for non-reference definitions, parameter uncertainty in model estimation, and uncertainty associated with establishment of disability weights.

Abbreviations

95% UI:

95% uncertainty intervals

DALYs:

Disability-adjusted life-years

GBD 2016:

Global Burden of Disease 2016 Project

YLDs:

Years lived with disability

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The author is grateful to the Global Burden of Disease 2016 Project and [7] Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), University of Washington, for providing the permission to reproduce the figures presented in this chapter.

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  1. Department of Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, National Institute of Occupational Health, Oslo, Norway

    Jose Hernán Alfonso

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  1. Hospital del Mar - Institut Mar d’Investigacions Mediques, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Department of Dermatology, Barcelona, Spain

    Ana M. Giménez-Arnau

  2. Department of Dermatology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

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Alfonso, J.H. (2018). Basic Epidemiology Concepts Relevant in Contact Urticaria. In: Giménez-Arnau, A., Maibach, H. (eds) Contact Urticaria Syndrome. Updates in Clinical Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89764-6_2

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