Anastasiya Muntyanu, Raymond Milan, Mohammed Kaouache, Julien Ringuet, Wayne Gulliver, Irina Pivneva, Jimmy Royer, Max Leroux, Kathleen Chen, Qiuyan Yu, Ivan V Litvinov, Christopher E M Griffiths, Darren M Ashcroft, Elham Rahme, Elena Netchiporouk
BACKGROUND: Psoriasis is a major global health burden affecting ~ 60 million people worldwide. Existing studies on psoriasis focused on individual-level health behaviors (e.g. diet, alcohol consumption, smoking, exercise) and characteristics as drivers of psoriasis risk. However, it is increasingly recognized that health behavior arises in the context of larger social, cultural, economic and environmental determinants of health. We aimed to identify the top risk factors that significantly impact the incidence of psoriasis at the neighborhood level using populational data from the province of Quebec (Canada) and advanced tree-based machine learning (ML) techniques...
March 18, 2024: American Journal of Clinical Dermatology