15 Nov Eczema Determined by Genetics or Environment?
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Hans Bisgaard, MD, DMSc
Professor of Pediatrics
Copenhagen University Hospital, Herlev-Gentofte
Copenhagen
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: The uniqueness of this study, is that we for the first time have day-to-day recordings of symptoms and use og local treatment during the first 3 years of life showing the disease peaks at 2 years of age and children start outgrowing thereafter.Previous studies including our own have analyzed eczema at a certain age.Since eczema is highly variable over time, our disease description is novel.This has allowed us a more reliable analyses of factors determining eczema in young children
MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report?
Response: What we see it that eczema is determined by genetics and with no know external factors causing or deteriorating the severity.
MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this work?
Response: We are currently aiming to analyze the interaction between genetics and the environment. In other words though eczema is highly genetically determined, we have reason to believe that external factors triggers such genes.
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Last Updated on November 15, 2018 by Marie Benz MD FAAD