National Information Campaign Revealed Disease Characteristic and Burden in Adult Patients Suffering from Atopic Dermatitis
Source : https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/11/17/5204
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common inflammatory skin disease often associated with a significant impairment in the quality of life of affected patients. The Italian Society of Dermatology and Venereology...
Conclusion: This study underlines the utility of organizing information campaigns on AD to enhance awareness regarding disease features and management and to facilitate early diagnosis with a subsequent reduction in the burden of disease.
Defining mast cell differentiation and heterogeneity through single-cell transcriptomics analysis - PubMed
Source : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36205448/
Mast cells (MCs) are widely recognized as central effector cells during type 2 inflammatory reactions and thought to also play a role in innate immune responses, wound healing, and potentially...
Discussion: With the increasing prevalence of newer transcriptomics-based technologies, such as Cellular Indexing of Transcriptomes and Epitopes (CITE-seq), allowing for the simultaneous evaluation of surface protein expression and transcript expressions, allowing for the improved identification of specific markers for each MC phenotype, and...
Clinical Efficacy of a Digital Intervention for Patients with Atopic Dermatitis: a Prospective Single-Center Study - Dermatology and Therapy
Source : https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13555-022-00821-y
Introduction Improving disease awareness and treatment adherence is key for the long-term management of atopic dermatitis (AD). Digital interventions can support patients in disease self-management and adopting a healthier lifestyle...
Conclusion: Patients with AD are open to and can benefit from a digitally delivered targeted intervention, as demonstrated by significant improvements in treatment adherence and related clinical outcomes.
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Barbara Honig3yrYes, it seems that digital interventions are here to stay and generally well-regarded by patients. Personally, I don't recommend them much unless a patient specifically asks about them since there Show More
Conclusion: Clinicians and patients are encouraged to incorporate these well-validated, quick-to-perform, and easy-to-use instruments into their clinic, selecting the instruments that best fit their need. These assessments are meant to enhance, not replace, the patient–clinician encounter, and to support real-world research and health care...
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Barbara Honig3yrIt is truly difficult to objectively measure subjective symptoms such as itch intensity in patients when seen in the office - what bothers one patient tremendously may not burden another Show More
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Jeremy Moss, Medical director and physician3yrDue to its inherent subjectivity, properly and objectively measuring itch intensity in patients has proven to be a difficult challenge. Nonetheless, trying to do this as accurately as possible Show More
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Cognitive-behavioral intervention for anxiety associated with food allergy in a clinical sample of children
Source : https://www.annallergy.org/article/S1081-1206(22)01769-0/fulltext
Although some measure of caution is healthy and adaptive for those with food allergy (FA) to reduce risk of accidental ingestion, clinically impairing food allergy-related anxiety (FAA) contributes to poorer...
Conclusion: Anxiety severity scores on the Scale of Food Allergy Anxiety and the Scale of Child Anxiety–Related Emotional Disorders significantly declined per both child and parent reports.