Symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are associated with Hidradenitis suppurativa in Danish blood donors

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Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease associated with psychiatric comorbidity. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a mental disorder associated with systemic and skin inflammation such as psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. Whether HS symptoms are associated with ADHD symptoms remains unexplored. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore the possible association between HS and ADHD. Participants in the Danish Blood Donor Study (DBDS) were included in this cross-sectional study during 2015–2017. The participants provided questionnaire data on screening items of HS, ADHD symptoms (ASRS-score), and depressive symptoms, smoking and body mass index (BMI). A logistic regression with HS symptoms as a binary outcome predicted by ADHD adjusted for age, sex, smoking, BMI, and depression was conducted to investigate the association between HS and ADHD. A total of 52,909 Danish blood donors were included in the study. Of these were 1004/52,909 (1.9%) considered participants with HS. Of the participants with HS, 74/996 (7.4%) screened positive of ADHD symptoms, while only 1786/51,129 (3.5%) of the participants without HS screened positive of ADHD. Adjusted for confounders, ADHD was positively associated with HS, odds ratio 1.85 (95% confidence interval: 1.43–2.37). Psychiatric comorbidity of HS is not limited to depression and anxiety. This study shows a positive association between HS and ADHD. Further research on the biological mechanisms behind this association is warranted.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftArchives of Dermatological Research
Vol/bind315
Antal sider6
ISSN0340-3696
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2023

Bibliografisk note

Funding Information:
The Danish Blood Donor Study is funded by: The Danish Council for Independent Research—Medical Sciences (grant number: 09–069412); The Danish Administrative Regions ( http://www.regioner.dk ); The Danish Bio- and Genome Bank ( http://www.regioner.dk/rbgben ). None of the funders had any influence on study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of this manuscript.

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© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.

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