Bone mineral density and osteoporosis risk in young adults with atopic dermatitisopen access
- Authors
- Kim, Sooyoung; Choi, Jimi; Cho, Moon Kyun; Kim, Nam Hoon; Kim, Sin Gon; Kim, Kyeong Jin
- Issue Date
- Dec-2021
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Citation
- Scientific Reports, v.11, no.1
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- Scientific Reports
- Volume
- 11
- Number
- 1
- URI
- https://scholarworks.korea.ac.kr/kumedicine/handle/2020.sw.kumedicine/55034
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41598-021-03630-z
- ISSN
- 2045-2322
2045-2322
- Abstract
- Atopic dermatitis (AD) has been increasing worldwide over the past few decades. AD has been reported to be associated with an increased risk of osteoporosis and fractures in adult AD patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the bone mineral density (BMD) to evaluate osteoporosis risk in young adults with AD by sex. This was a case–control cohort study using a national dataset from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2007–2009. We included young adult AD patients (men aged 19 ≤ and < 50 years, premenopausal women aged 19 ≤ and < 50 years) and 1:5 propensity score weighting controls by age, sex, body mass index (BMI), vitamin D level, and alcohol/smoking status. BMD was measured by double energy X-ray absorptiometry at the lumbar spine, femur neck, and total femur. The prevalence of low BMD, defined by a Z-score ≤ − 2.0, was compared between AD and without AD. We analyzed 311 (weighted n = 817,014) AD patients and 8,972 (weighted n = 20,880,643) controls. BMD at the lumbar spine was significantly lower in the male AD group than in the male control group (mean ± SE, 0.954 ± 0.016 vs. 0.989 ± 0.002, P = 0.03). The prevalence of low BMD (Z-score) did not significantly differ between AD and non-AD subjects in both men (3.8% vs. 2.7%, P = 0.56) and women (6.4% vs. 3.3%, P = 0.40). Among AD patients, early age at diagnosis of AD, longer duration of AD, lower BMI, rural residence (for men), less education, low vitamin D level, late menarche, and more pregnancies (for women) were associated with low BMD. In conclusion, low BMD did not occur more frequently in young adults with AD than in non-AD controls. However, early-onset/longer AD duration and lower BMI were associated with low BMD among young adult patients with AD.
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