Eczema and water hardness: another piece of the puzzle found?

Affiliations

¹ Dutch Association for People with Atopic Dermatitis, Nijkerk, the Netherlands.
² Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham, U.K.

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B W M Arents et al. Br J Dermatol. 2020 Aug.

. 2020 Aug;183(2):203-204.

doi: 10.1111/bjd.18864. Epub 2020 Jan 29.

¹ Dutch Association for People with Atopic Dermatitis, Nijkerk, the Netherlands.
² Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham, Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham, U.K.

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Longitudinal analysis of the effect of water hardness on atopic eczema: evidence for gene-environment interaction.
Jabbar-Lopez ZK, Craven J, Logan K, Greenblatt D, Marrs T, Radulovic S, McLean WHI, Lack G, Strachan DP, Perkin MR, Peacock JL, Flohr C. Jabbar-Lopez ZK, et al. Br J Dermatol. 2020 Aug;183(2):285-293. doi: 10.1111/bjd.18597. Epub 2019 Dec 22. Br J Dermatol. 2020. PMID: 31599965

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