TY - JOUR AU - Lai, Feng-Jie AB - Am J Clin Dermatol (2015) 16:213–220 DOI 10.1007/s40257-015-0117-9 OR IGINAL RESEARCH ARTIC L E Risk of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Patients with Psoriasis: A Retrospective Cohort Study • • Yung-Chang Yen Yung-Song Lin Shih-Feng Weng Feng-Jie Lai Published online: 17 February 2015 Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 Abstract 2011 and evaluated the incidence of SSNHL for at least Significance Psoriasis, a common immune-mediated dis- 6 years after the initial psoriasis diagnosis. ease, affects approximately 2 % of the population world- Results The incidence of SSNHL was 1.51 times higher in wide. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL) might be the psoriasis cohort than in the control cohort (7.12 vs 4.73 a manifestation of systemic vascular involvement in au- per 10,000 person-years). Using Cox proportional hazard toimmune disease. However, to the best of our knowledge, regressions, the adjusted hazard ratio (AHR) was 1.51 (95 % there is no systematic English-language examination of the confidence interval [CI] 1.18–1.93). Comorbid hypertension risk of SSNHL in patients with psoriasis. was an independent risk factor for SSNHL (AHR 1.49; 95 % Objectives We tested the hypothesis that psoriasis is a CI 1.05–2.13). However, the incidence rate ratios (IRRs) for risk factor for developing SSNHL. TI - Risk of Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss in Patients with Psoriasis: A Retrospective Cohort Study JF - American Journal of Clinical Dermatology DO - 10.1007/s40257-015-0117-9 DA - 2015-02-17 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/risk-of-sudden-sensorineural-hearing-loss-in-patients-with-psoriasis-a-fjtDQ2rZDt SP - 213 EP - 220 VL - 16 IS - 3 DP - DeepDyve ER -