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Prevalence of, and work-related risk factors for, hand eczema in a Norwegian general population (The HUNT Study)

Vindenes, Hilde Kristin; Svanes, Cecilie; Lygre, Stein Håkon Låstad; Hollund, Bjørg Eli; Langhammer, Arnulf; Bertelsen, Randi Jacobsen
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http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2581824
Date
2017
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Contact Dermatitis. 2017, 77 (4), 214-223.   10.1111/cod.12800
Abstract
Background

Chemical exposures at work and at home may cause hand eczema. However, this has been scarcely described for Norway.

Objectives

To investigate the prevalence of, and occupational risk factors for, hand eczema in Norway.

Methods

Among 50 805 respondents (aged ≥20 years) to the third Nord‐Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT3), 5757 persons reported ever having hand eczema, and 4206 answered a hand eczema questionnaire.

Results

The lifetime prevalences of hand eczema were 8.4% in men and 13.8% in women (p < 0.001), with onset at age ≤10 years in 24% (men) and 20% (women), and onset at age ≥30 years in 37% (men) and 25% (women) (p < 0.001). Work‐related hand eczema affected 4.8% of the population, and was most frequently associated with health/social work (29%) and occupational cleaning (20%) in women, and with farming (26%) and industrial occupations (27%) in men. Cleaning detergents (75%) and other chemicals (36%) were the most common exacerbating factors.

Conclusions

The prevalence of hand eczema was 11.3%, and that of work‐related hand eczema was 4.8%. Hand eczema was more common in women than in men, but with a later onset in men. Cleaning detergents were the most common aggravating factors. A large proportion of the Nord‐Trøndelag population is employed in farming, providing the possibility to identify farming as an important risk factor for hand eczema.
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Wiley
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