Epidemiology of Hyperhidrosis in Two Population-Based Healthcare Databases

Hyperhidrosis has a range of reported prevalence estimates with the most often cited equal to 2.8%.We describe methods using a combination of diagnosis, symptom, and prescription codes from healthcare databases to ascertain hyperhidrosis cases.This study estimates population prevalences of 1% - 1.6% for patients seeking healthcare for hyperhidrosis.