Severe Mental Illness Among Adults with Atopic Eczema or Psoriasis: Population-Based Matched Cohort Studies within UK Primary Care.

"Declarations This paper was presented at the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC) Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) 2022 as a short oral presentation. The abstract for the talk can be found on the SAPC ASM 2022 website (doi: https://sapc.ac.uk/doi/10.37361/asm.2022.1.1). This study is based in part on data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink obtained under license from the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. The data are provided by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support. The interpretation and conclusions contained in this study are those of the author/s alone. Disclosure JFH has received consultancy fees from Wellcome Trust and juli Health. RM has received consulting fees from AMGEN. CS has received grants from Medical Research Council (MRC) and European Consortium (EC) funded consortia with multiple industry partners (see biomap-eu.im and PSORT.org.uk for details) and SML is also an investigator on BIOMAP but without industry funding and reports grants from Wellcome Trust; CS has received departmental research funding from AbbVie, Novartis, Pfizer, Sanofi, Boehringer Ingelheim, and SOBI. KM has received consultancy fees from AMGEN. The remaining authors declare that they have no relevant conflicts of interest."

"EA was funded by a British Skin Foundation (BSF) PhD studentship (Reference: 024/S/18). SML was supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in Clinical Science (205039/Z/16/Z). JFH is supported by a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grant (Reference: MR/V023373/1), the University College London Hospitals NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and the NIHR North Thames Applied Research Collaboration. This study is funded by the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit programme (Reference: PB-PG-0418-20025). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. SML was also supported by Health Data Research UK (Grant number: LOND1), which is funded by the UK Medical Research Council, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Department of Health and Social Care (England), Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Social Care Directorates, Health and Social Care Research and Development Division (Welsh Government), Public Health Agency (Northern Ireland), British Heart Foundation and Wellcome Trust. CS and SML are investigators on the European Union Horizon 2020-funded BIOMAP Consortium (http://www.biomap-imi.eu/). Funders had no role in the study design, collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision, submit the article for publication. This research was funded in whole or in part by the Wellcome Trust [205039/Z/16/Z]. For the purpose of Open Access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript (AAM) version arising from this submission."