According to the Korea Food Communication Forum on the 7th, a research team from the Department of Family Medicine of the National Medical Center surveyed 348 adult atopic dermatitis patients in their 20s and 30s (experienced by doctors) who participated in the 2016-2018 National Health and Nutrition Survey. The analysis revealed this. The results of this study were introduced in the recent issue of the Journal of Korean Family Medicine under the title of’Analysis of Factors Related to Improvement of Atopic Dermatitis in Adults in their 20s and 30s’.
42% (146) of adult atopy patients in the study responded that “there is no atopy at the moment”, confirming that their symptoms improved. The remaining 58% (202 patients) did not improve atopic symptoms. It was found that the likelihood of improvement of atopy symptoms increased when they enjoyed medium-high-intensity physical activity or medium-high-intensity leisure activities. Adults who had high-intensity physical activities with a lot of breath, heart beating very quickly, or moderate-intensity physical activities with a little short breath or heart beating slightly were 2.5 times and 1.2 times more likely to be in symptom improvement, respectively.
Similarly, adults who engage in high-intensity and moderate-intensity physical activity in leisure activities were 1.5 times and 2.0 times more likely to have improved atopic symptoms than adults who did not. The number of walking days and strength training days each week had no correlation with whether or not the atopy improved. Physical activity may contribute to normalizing immunoglobulin (IgE) levels elevated by atopy, the researchers analyzed.
Less stress and getting enough sleep were also predicted to contribute to the relief of adult atopic symptoms. The stressful adult atopic patients were 1.7 times more likely to belong to the atopic symptom-non-improving group than those with less stress.
The research team said in the paper, “Atopic patients have relatively high depression, anxiety, anxiety, and stress, so it is known that mental health is an important factor in the occurrence of atopy.” In the previous study, 20% of atopic patients suffer from depression, and He pointed out that there was a high tendency to use antidepressants and suicide.”
Adult atopic patients are known to have poor sleep quality and lack of sleep time, such as having difficulty falling asleep due to itching and pain, and having difficulty maintaining sleep. Men rather than women and unmarried people were more likely to belong to atopic symptom improvement group. The average age of the atopic symptom improvement group was less than that of the non-resisting group.
Meanwhile, 85% of all patients with atopic dermatitis develop in children (under 5 years of age). Of these, 25% last to adults.