Differences in sensitization rates between children with Chronic Eczema and general population: Can they provide insight into significance of particular haptens for the disease?
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Background Contact allergy is present in 58-67% children with chronic eczema, yet some children with contact allergy never develop eczema. To assess the significance of contact allergy in eczema, rates of sensitization to each hapten should be compared between eczema patients and general ("healthy”) population. It seems reasonable that haptens with higher odds ratios and attributed risk for sensitization (i.e. better discriminating between ill and healthy) are “more important” in eczema, whether cause or result. The present study was aimed at estimating these indices for selected haptens.
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