Around 6% of kids and teens have eczema, and rates are increasing

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James Heilman, MD, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

A study of eczema rates around the world has found that around 6% of kids and teens have current eczema symptoms with just over 1% of teens and 0.6% of kids experiencing extreme symptoms. Globally, there was also an increase in the rates of eczema of around 1% each decade.

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Organisation/s: The University of New South Wales, University of Auckland, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK

Funder: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Boehringer Ingelheim New Zealand, Astra Zeneca Educational Grant, UK National Institute of Health Research, UK Medical Research Council (PhD studentship for Charlotte E. Rutter, UKMRC grant number MR/N013638/1), European Research Council, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Wellcome Trust (Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical fellowship to Professor Sinéad Langan, grant number 205039/Z/16/Z).

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