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ArticleNature communications2024

Incident allergic diseases in post-COVID-19 condition: multinational cohort studies from South Korea, Japan and the UK.

Jiyeon Oh, Myeongcheol Lee, Minji Kim, Hyeon Jin Kim, Seung Won Lee, Sang Youl Rhee, Ai Koyanagi, Lee Smith, Min Seo Kim, Hayeon Lee and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Jiyeon Oh *Department of Medicine, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Myeongcheol Lee *Center for Digital Health, Medical Science Research Institute, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Minji Kim *Center for Digital Health, Medical Science Research Institute, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-0570
Hyeon Jin Kim *Center for Digital Health, Medical Science Research Institute, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.
Seung Won LeeDepartment of Precision Medicine, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5632-5208
Sang Youl RheeCenter for Digital Health, Medical Science Research Institute, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0119-5818
Ai KoyanagiResearch and Development Unit, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, Barcelona, Spain.
Lee SmithCentre for Health, Performance and Wellbeing, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK.
Min Seo KimMedical and Population Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2115-7835
Hayeon LeeCenter for Digital Health, Medical Science Research Institute, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. wwhy28@khu.ac.kr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-2403-6241
Jinseok LeeDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, South Korea. gonasago@khu.ac.kr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8580-490X
Dong Keon YonDepartment of Medicine, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. yonkkang@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1628-9948
Kyung Hee University · KRBroad Institute · USAnglia Ruskin University · GBParc Sanitari Sant Joan de Déu · ESSungkyunkwan University · KR

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2023-00248157
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As mounting evidence suggests a higher incidence of adverse consequences, such as disruption of the immune system, among patients with a history of COVID-19, we aimed to investigate post-COVID-19 conditions on a comprehensive set of allergic diseases including asthma, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, and food allergy. We used nationwide claims-based cohorts in South Korea (K-CoV-N; n = 836,164; main cohort) and Japan (JMDC; n = 2,541,021; replication cohort A) and the UK Biobank cohort (UKB; n = 325,843; replication cohort B) after 1:5 propensity score matching. Among the 836,164 individuals in the main cohort (mean age, 50.25 years [SD, 13.86]; 372,914 [44.6%] women), 147,824 were infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the follow-up period (2020-2021). The risk of developing allergic diseases, beyond the first 30 days of diagnosis of COVID-19, significantly increased (HR, 1.20; 95% CI, 1.13-1.27), notably in asthma (HR, 2.25; 95% CI, 1.80-2.83) and allergic rhinitis (HR, 1.23; 95% CI, 1.15-1.32). This risk gradually decreased over time, but it persisted throughout the follow-up period (≥6 months). In addition, the risk increased with increasing severity of COVID-19. Notably, COVID-19 vaccination of at least two doses had a protective effect against subsequent allergic diseases (HR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.68-0.96). Similar findings were reported in the replication cohorts A and B. Although the potential for misclassification of pre-existing allergic conditions as incident diseases remains a limitation, ethnic diversity for evidence of incident allergic diseases in post-COVID-19 condition has been validated by utilizing multinational and independent population-based cohorts.

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AsthmaCOVID-19Rhinitis, AllergicCohort StudiesCOVID-19 VaccinesFemaleHumansJapanMaleMiddle AgedSARS-CoV-2United KingdomCOVID-19 Vaccines

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