VIDEO: Age risk differs widely between vasculitis types

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They're different from one type of vasculitis to another. So let's say, take for example, age can be a risk factor because there are some certain vasculitis that affect certain age type. For example, IGA vasculitis affect mainly younger population while Giant cell arteritis affect older population older than 55. So age can have different presentation depending on your age. Gender can also be a risk factor. For example, in Behcet's syndrome, this is a vasculitis that affect men more than women and also ethnic group can be differently affected like patient syndrome affect mainly patients on from the Mediterranean area.

Kawasaki vasculitis affect younger population from Japan, so age, race, ethnic group. There are certain medications that affect that can be a risk factor for vasculitis such as prescription medication. A medication called hydrazine very rarely can cause vasculitis. Others such as allopurinol, which is a gout medication, can rarely cause vasculitis as well as other medication used to to treat thyroid disorder over illicit medication. Drugs such as cocaine vasculitis, very rare, rare tumor necrosis factors, which is a group of class of medications pain cause also very rarely vasculitis.

Other factors that can cause vasculitis. Sometimes autoimmune disease such as lupus, Sjogren, rheumatoid arthritis very rarely can cause vasculitis. One category that can be a risk for vasculitis are infection such as, you know, just viral infection can cause cutaneous vasculitis. We also can see other major vasculitis such as Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis in hepatitis C, you can see a Polyarteritis nodosa with hepatitis B, we have seen some different type of vasculitis with COVID. So infection can also play a role in, as a risk factor for vasculitis. So this is like in summary some of the risk factors that we see in in developing vasculitis.