Association of Wildfire Air Pollution With Clinic Visits for Psoriasis

Raj P Fadadu; Marcus Green; Barbara Grimes; Nicholas P Jewell; Divya Seth; Jason Vargo; Maria L Wei

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.51553

Association of Wildfire Air Pollution With Clinic Visits for Psoriasis

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jan 3;6(1):e2251553. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.51553.

Authors

Raj P Fadadu^{1

2}, Marcus Green³, Barbara Grimes⁴, Nicholas P Jewell³, Divya Seth¹, Jason Vargo^{5

6}, Maria L Wei^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco.
² Dermatology Service, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Medical Statistics, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.
⁵ Office of Health Equity, California Department of Public Health, Richmond.
⁶ Now with Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study examines whether clinic visits and online search interest for psoriasis were associated with wildfire air pollution after a delayed lag period.

MeSH terms

Air Pollutants* / analysis
Air Pollution* / adverse effects
Air Pollution* / analysis
Ambulatory Care
Humans
Psoriasis* / epidemiology
Wildfires*

Substances

Air Pollutants

Grants and funding

R01 AI148127/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States