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Table 3 Psychiatric comorbidity in chronic urticaria (CU) patients—studies including a control group

From: Psychiatric comorbidity in chronic urticaria patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis

 

Chronic urticaria patients

Control individuals

All

With psychiatric comorbidity

All

With psychiatric comorbidity

Uguz et al. [26]

 Case–control study

89

44

60

8

Atefi et al. [25]

 Case–control study

30

19

30

14

Chu et al. [17]

 Case–control study

177,879

56,195

996,356

45,449

Total

177,998

56,258

996,446

45,471

119#

63#

90#

22#

Pooled prevalence

 

31.6%*

 

4.6%*

 

52.9%#, **

 

24.4%#, **`

  1. * Pearson’s χ2: p-value < 0.001
  2. ** Pearson’s χ2: p-value = 0.006
  3. #After excluding Chu et al. study