VIDEO: Risk for developing atopic dermatitis often genetic, but sometimes modifiable

Aaron M Drucker, MD, ScM, FRCPC, FAAD

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Editor’s note: This is an automatically generated transcript. Please notify editor@healio.com if there are concerns regarding accuracy of the transcription.I'm Aaron Drucker. I'm an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto and a dermatologist and clinician scientist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. We know that most of the risk for atopic dermatitis is genetic, and there's not much people can do about that, of course. There are some elements that

are environmentally modifiable. Probably about 20% of what goes into the risk of someone developing atopic dermatitis is modifiable. But we don't know a lot about what those things are and how we can actually modify them.