Atopic dermatitis is a common inflammatory disease but the economic burden of is not well understood. In one of our most recent publications, Quantify authors; Gustaf Ortsäter, Alexander Rieem Dun and Kirk Geale showed that atopic dermatitis was associated with a significant societal economic burden.
The burden of AD was mainly driven by increased direct healthcare costs, but indirect costs including parental leave to care for a sick child with AD and long-term sick leave in the adult AD population were also significantly higher than matched controls. Patients with severe AD had a higher economic burden per patient, but due to the high prevalence of M2M AD the economic burden of AD at a population level was higher for patients with M2M AD. Despite being often considered a childhood disease, the economic burden of AD was also shown to be significant in adulthood.
You can read the full article “Societal economic burden and determinants of costs for atopic dermatitis” here: https://lnkd.in/dn_Sd9B8
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