Male patients experienced more severe objective symptoms with atopic dermatitis than female patients, according to a study presented at European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Hybrid Congress 2022.
But female patients perceive their subjective symptoms as more severe, with equal impairments in quality of life, Katharina Zeiser, MPH, a doctoral student at the Institute of Environmental Medicine in Augsburg, Germany, said during the presentation.
“In general, it is known that more females than male patients are affected by atopic dermatitis. However, there are only a few studies