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ArticleScientific reports2021

High waist circumference rather than high body mass index may be a predictive risk factor for the longer disease duration of chronic spontaneous urticaria.

Yeong Ho Kim, Kyung Do Han, Chul Hwan Bang, Ji Hyun Lee, Jun Young Lee, Yong Gyu Park, Young Min Park

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Exploring the Disease Duration of Urticaria and Associated Determinants in Primary Care.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2026
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Yeong Ho KimDepartment of Dermatology, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea.
Kyung Do HanDepartment of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Soongsil University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Chul Hwan BangDepartment of Dermatology, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea.
Ji Hyun LeeDepartment of Dermatology, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea.
Jun Young LeeDepartment of Dermatology, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea.
Yong Gyu ParkDepartment of Biostatistics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Young Min ParkDepartment of Dermatology, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 222 Banpo-daero, Seocho-gu, Seoul, 06591, Republic of Korea. 96015367@cmcnu.or.kr.
Catholic University of Korea · KRSeoul St. Mary's Hospital · KRSoongsil University · KR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In a previous study, we found that higher waist circumference (WC) and higher body mass index (BMI) both increase the risk of chronic spontaneous urticaria (CSU). The aim of this study was to determine whether WC and BMI also increase the duration of CSU. We used multivariable Cox proportional hazards models to determine the hazard ratio (HR) for longer disease duration (longer than 3 years) according to WC and BMI. A total of 52,667 subjects were enrolled and their mean age was 54.5. After adjustments for other confounding variables the high WC/high BMI group had 1.062 times higher HR (95% CI, 1.028-1.098) than the normal WC/normal BMI group. Interestingly, the high WC/normal BMI group showed a significantly higher HR (1.053; 95% CI, 1.008-1.101) than the normal WC/normal BMI group, but not the normal WC/high BMI group (0.998; 95% CI, 0.951-1.046). Taken together, our results suggest that high WC rather than high BMI is a predictive risk factor for the longer disease duration of CSU.

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Body Mass IndexWaist CircumferenceAdultAgedAged, 80 and overChronic UrticariaCross-Sectional StudiesFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNational Health ProgramsObesityPrognosisProportional Hazards ModelsRepublic of Korea

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