Correlated, conflated, and confounded

This month's issue of Annals welcomes several articles to consider the complex relationship between atopic dermatitis (AD) and food allergy (FA). If these conditions were to describe their status on social media, their post might read, "it's complicated." Indeed, the relationship between AD and FA might be described as codependent, but to variable degrees, with shifting paradigms of understanding influencing clinical practice over recent decades.