Skin disease patterns in Hormozgan, Iran

Abstract

It appears that certain skin diseases such as dermatitis and eczema, superficial mycoses and scabies cause serious health problems in the region. Emphasis should be placed on this group of common skin diseases at all levels of personal health care, and suitable public health policies should be implemented in order to manage this problem rationally.

Trends in the pattern of skin diseases in the last four decades at Assiut University Hospital - Upper Egypt

“…Mycobacterial diseases (leprosy only) had less frequent rate (0.11% of the total). Lower rates of leprosy were reported: Tunisia (0.004%) (21), Cairo (0.08%) (14), Kaduna (Nigeria) (0.1%) (8) and Bandar Abbas (Iran) (0.3%) (25). Higher rate of leprosy (1.2%) was reported in Ibadan (Nigeria) (26).…”

“…In Nigeria (Ibadan) a rate of 30.2% was observed (26). It was the second common group in Iran (24.5%) (25). In Hail and Al-Khobr in Saudi Arabia rates of 16.3% and 19.6% were detected (18,19).The high rate may be due to industrialization, increasing use of chemicals, diet changes, and use of food additives that may have acted as external irritants and allergens.…”

Perfil nosológico de centro de referência em dermatologia no estado do Amazonas - Brasil

“…In other studies, there is a predominance of infectious and parasitic skin diseases, 5,18,19 but most of them exclude STDs from research. Since the service studied is a reference center for the treatment of STDs, this may have been bias that influenced the results found.…”

Health-related quality of life and disease burden of psoriasis in Iran

“…In Iran, the prevalence of psoriasis is estimated to be around 1 %. (Baghestani et al, 2005, Noorbala&Kafaie, 2010 In the US, the estimated prevalence of diagnosed psoriasis is 3.15%. However, it is reported to be less prevalent in Asia than in Europe.…”

“…(Table 5) According to a study in 2010 which involved all new cases of skin diseases referred to one hospital in Southern Iran over a 3-year period, infectious and parasitic diseases (including infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissues) were found to be the most common skin diseases (32.1%), followed by dermatitis and eczema (24.5%). (Baghestani et al, 2005) Metrics andEvaluation (2017e, 2017d) While the major burden of disease is non communicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer and injuries, the country is still faced with the problem of infectious diseases, for instance Cholera epidemic in 2005 and 2007. (Lankarani et al, 2013) …”