Study emphasizes the importance of whole body skin evaluations in older patients – News-Medical.Net

In a study of 552 adults aged 70 to 93 years old, 80% of participants had at least one skin disease that required treatment, and the most common conditions were fungal skin infections, rosacea, actinic keratosis, and eczema. ?
The study, which is published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, also found that more than a third of participants (39.1%) had three or more simultaneous skin diseases.
Skin diseases were more common in males than in females, and there were weak associati…

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