Objective To investigate the correlation between serum immune inflammatory biomarkers and disease severity in patients with chronic eczema.Methods One-hundred patients with chronic eczema who were treated in Wuhan Traditional Chinese MedicineHospital from September 2021 to August 2022 were included in the study, including 69 patients with localized eczema and 31 patientswith generalized eczema; according to the severity of the disease, the patients were divided into mild group (37 cases), moderate group(34 cases) and severe group (29 cases); at the same time, 40 healthy people were included in the control group. Enzyme-linked immuno sorbent assay (ELISA) was used to detect the levels of serum immune inflammatory biomarkers interleukin (IL)-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, in terferon-gamma (IFN-γ), IL-10, IL-17, IL-18, IL-23, IL-33, and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α); flow cytometry was used to detect the levels of CD4+ and CD8+ in peripheral blood; Pearson correlation was used to analyze the correlation between serum immune inflammatory biomarkers and eczema area and severity index (EASI) scores in patients with chronic eczema.Results Serum IL-2 [(10.51±2.10) μg/L vs. (12.94±2.26) μg/L vs. (15.03±2.34) μg/L vs. (17.94±2.56) μg/L], IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, IL-17, IL-18, IL-23, IL-33, TNF-α, IFN-γ and CD8+ in patients with chronic eczema in the control group, mild group, moderate group and severe group increased in turn, and CD4+ [(43.24±6.79)% vs. (37.04±4.25)% vs. (29.12±2.78)% vs. (25.62±2.35)%] decreased in turn (P<0.05). There was no obvious difference in serum IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, IL-17, IL-18, IL-23, IL-33, TNF-α, IFN-γ, CD4+, and CD8+ between patients with lo calized and patients with generalized chronic eczema (P>0.05). The EASI score of chronic eczema patients was positively correlated with serum IL-2, IL-4, IL-5, IL-6, IL-10, IL-17, IL-18, IL-23, IL-33, TNF-α, IFN-γ, CD8+, and negatively correlated with CD4+ (P< 0.05).Conclusion There is a obvious correlation between serum immune inflammatory biomarkers and the severity of chronic eczema,and these indicators can be considered as relevant auxiliary indicators for disease assessment, which can be popularized and applied inclinical practice. |