Association of Exposure to Wildfire Air Pollution With Exacerbations of Atopic Dermatitis and Itch Among Older Adults

Raj P Fadadu; Marcus Green; Nicholas P Jewell; Barbara Grimes; Jason Vargo; Maria L Wei

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.38594

Association of Exposure to Wildfire Air Pollution With Exacerbations of Atopic Dermatitis and Itch Among Older Adults

JAMA Netw Open. 2022 Oct 3;5(10):e2238594. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.38594.

Authors

Raj P Fadadu^{1

2}, Marcus Green³, Nicholas P Jewell³, Barbara Grimes⁴, Jason Vargo^{5

6}, Maria L Wei^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.
² Dermatology Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco.
⁵ Office of Health Equity, California Department of Public Health, Richmond.
⁶ Now with Department of Community Development, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study evaluates the association of exposure to wildfire air pollution with exacerbations of atopic dermatitis and itch among adults aged 65 years or older.

MeSH terms

Aged
Air Pollution* / adverse effects
Dermatitis, Atopic*
Humans
Pruritus / complications
Wildfires*

Grants and funding

R01 AI148127/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States