• Junwu Zhang, Wanzhong Kong, Jinyao Ni, Zhen Guo, Xunjun Yang, Qun Cao, Sheliang Wang, Yijun Feng, Ying Zhou, Wei Weng, Shanyan Liang, Shuang Li, Yanxia Chen, and Jinlin Liu.
• Department of Clinical Laboratory, Wenzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Wenzhou, China.
• J. Clin. Lab. Anal. 2020 Oct 1; 34 (10): e23440.

BackgroundSelective immunoglobulin A deficiency (SIgAD) is the most common primary antibody deficiency disease and frequently reported in the Western countries. However, large-scale epidemiologic studies on SIgAD in China are still lacking.MethodsThe clinical information of 555 180 subjects (age >4 years) including the outpatient, inpatient, and healthy subjects who had ordered serum immunoglobulin A, G, M in 9 hospitals of Zhejiang Province in China was collected. The SIgAD individuals were defined as IgA level <0.07 g/L with normal levels of serum IgG and IgM, whose age should be over 4 years, and any other secondary diseases causing SIgAD were also excluded. Then, the geographical and prevalence distribution of SIgAD individuals in Zhejiang Province and patients' clinical characteristics at the time of diagnosis were also reviewed.ResultAmong these 555 180 subjects who had ordered the immunoglobulin evaluation, the prevalence of SIgAD was 109/555180 (0.02%). The ratio of male to female of these SIgAD individuals was 1:1.37, which also included 87 adults (≥18 years) and 22 children (18 > age >4 years). For adults, the common clinical features were infections (43/87, 49.43%), autoimmune disorders (31/87, 35.63%), allergic cases (5/87, 5.75%), and tumor cases (4/87, 4.60%). Additionally, infectious diseases (20/22, 90.91%), autoimmune disorders (4/22, 18.18%), and allergic cases (1/22, 4.55%) were found in 22 children.ConclusionWe first describe a large cohort of SIgAD individuals of Zhejiang Province in China. The incidence was 0.020%. The common clinical features were infection, autoimmune disorders, tumor, and allergy, and the infection rate was higher in children than the adults.© 2020 The Authors. Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.

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