Partner bereavement and risk of chronic urticaria, alopecia areata and vitiligo: cohort studies in the UK and Denmark.

Wong, AYS; Kjaersgaard, A; Frøslev, T; Forbes, HJ; Mansfield, KE; Silverwood, RJ; Sørensen, HT; Smeeth, L; Schmidt, SAJ; Langan, SM; (2020) Partner bereavement and risk of chronic urticaria, alopecia areata and vitiligo: cohort studies in the UK and Denmark. The British Journal of Dermatology, 183 (4). pp. 761-763. ISSN 0007-0963 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/bjd.19122

Abstract

The pathogeneses of skin diseases are not fully understood. Psychological stress has been proposed to be associated with skin diseases, but the epidemiological evidence is limited [1, 2]. We have recently reported the associations between partner bereavement (an extreme life stressor) and psoriasis, atopic eczema and melanoma [3, 4]. In this study, we further investigated whether partner bereavement was associated with urticaria, alopecia areata, or vitiligo.

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Item Type	Article
Faculty and Department	Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health > Dept of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Academic Services & Administration > Directorate
Research Centre	EHR Research Group
PubMed ID	32282926
Elements ID	146928