A study using a Korean database found that COVID-19 infection raised long-term risks for various autoimmune and autoinflammatory skin disorders, and vaccination may reduce these risks.
A population-based study has shown a slightly elevated risk for patients’ developing skin disorders , including alopecia areata , alopecia totalis , vitiligo, and bullous pemphigoid , more than 6 months after COVID-19 infection. In addition, the authors reported that the COVID-19 vaccination appears to reduce these risks.“This well-executed study by Heo et al.
Those aged under 40 years were more likely to develop AA, primary cicatricial alopecia, Behçet disease, and ulcerative colitis, while those aged 40 years or older were more likely to develop AA, AT, vitiligo, Behçet disease, Crohn’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, ankylosing spondylitis, and BP.
The foregoing distinction is especially important during the fall and winter, he added, when people getting influenza vaccines are routinely offered COVID-19 vaccines. “Many patients have said, ‘I got the COVID vaccine and developed alopecia areata 6 months later.’ Nearly everybody who has developed a new or worsening health condition in the last almost 5 years has had the perfect fall guy — the COVID vaccine or infection.
Additional issues that limit the study’s impact, said Han, include the difficulty of conceptualizing a 10%-20% increase in conditions that at baseline are rare. And many of the findings reflected natural patterns, he said. For instance, BP more commonly affects older people, COVID-19 notwithstanding.
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