Bullous pemphigoid and neurological disorders among a Jewish population

Dermatol Online J. 2018 May 15;24(5):13030/qt86b4640n.

Abstract

A retrospective case control study included data regarding 65 Jewish bullous pemphigoid (BP) patients diagnosed in a tertiary medical center and a control group consisting of 182 matched Jewish patients. The study indicates that Jewish patients with BP suffer from a higher prevalence of neurological diseases compared to patients with no BP, similarly to previous reports showing high prevalence of neurological diseases among BP patients from different ethnic groups.

MeSH terms

  • Case-Control Studies
  • Humans
  • Jews
  • Nervous System Diseases / epidemiology
  • Nervous System Diseases / ethnology*
  • Nervous System Diseases / etiology
  • Pemphigoid, Bullous / complications
  • Pemphigoid, Bullous / ethnology*
  • Prevalence
  • Retrospective Studies