TY - JOUR AU1 - Caldas, Stella AU2 - Pagan, Angel D. AU3 - Correa da Rosa, Joel AU4 - Kim, Brian S. AU5 - Ungar, Benjamin AB - Archives of Dermatological Research https://doi.org/10.1007/s00403-023-02684-5 RESEARCH LE T TER Irritable bowel syndrome and interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome are associated with pruritus bidirectionally in U.S. adults 1,2 1,3 1 1 1 Stella Caldas  · Angel D. Pagan  · Joel Correa da Rosa  · Brian S. Kim  · Benjamin Ungar Received: 15 June 2023 / Revised: 15 June 2023 / Accepted: 27 July 2023 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2023 Keywords Unspecified pruritus · Itch · Irritable bowel syndrome · IBS · Interstitial cystitis · TriNetX Analytics Abbreviations Methods Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) Interstitial cystitis (IC) A retrospective, cross-sectional, single-center study was per- The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) formed to identify frequencies of a diagnoses of pruritus in Odds ratio (OR) IBS and IC/BPS patients and of IBS and IC/BPS in patients Confidence interval (CI) with pruritus using the TriNetX Analytics platform in the Mount Sinai Health System network. Cases were defined as patients ≥ 18 years with an index event for IBS (ICD-10CM Introduction code: K58), IC/BPS (N30.1), and pruritus, unspecified (L29.9), and were included if the index diagnosis occurred Pruritus commonly underlies both dermatologic and non- between 2002 and 2022. Controls were 1:1 propensity dermatologic systemic disorders and can be as debilitating score-matched based on age at TI - Irritable bowel syndrome and interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome are associated with pruritus bidirectionally in U.S. adults JF - Archives of Dermatological Research DO - 10.1007/s00403-023-02684-5 DA - 2023-11-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/irritable-bowel-syndrome-and-interstitial-cystitis-bladder-pain-dDIazL5fih SP - 2745 EP - 2747 VL - 315 IS - 9 DP - DeepDyve ER -