Clinical Patterns of Facial Aging among Egyptian Females
Journal Title: The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 72, Issue 11
Abstract
<strong>Background:</strong> the skin displays the most visible manifestations of aging. Research interest in aging process has grown and people are becoming obsessed with looking young. The face has received most of the attention and generated most of the studies related to beauty and aging because it is the most expressive part of human body.<strong> Aim of the Work:</strong> to assess the different clinical patterns of facial wrinkles and signs of skin aging among different age categories of Egyptian females.<strong> Subjects and Methods:</strong> this cross-sectional study was carried out in the Dermatology, Venereology and Andrology department of Ain Shams University Hospitals after Institutional Review Board approval. The study included included 100 adult females ranged from 20-60 years old.<strong> Results:</strong> the mean age was (38.570±11.634) with a range of 20-60 years. Skin phototype was Fitzpatrick Type III in 8 patients (8%), IV in 55 females (55%) and V in 37 females (37%). Glogau classification for severity of skin aging signs was type I in 39 cases (39%), Type II in 20 (20%), Type III in 26 (26%) and type VI in 15 (15%). All patients reported history of excessive sun exposure for extended hours; 32 cases reported sunscreen use but not regular, while 68 cases didn’t use sunscreen.<strong> Conclusion:</strong> skin Type IV showed more wrinkles indentation index, roughness, melanin concentration, melanin heterogeneity and HGB heterogeneity. There was a significant correlation between the sunscreen use and average melanin concentration, where cases that used sunscreen showed lower average melanin concentration. The relation between sun screen use and severity of wrinkles (Indentation index) was non-significant.
Authors and Affiliations
Eman Helal
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP584381
- DOI 10.12816/ejhm.2018.11523
- Views 99
- Downloads 0
Types of Surgical Repair and Outcome in Patients with Tetralogy of Fallot: Experience from A Single Center in Saudi Arabia
<span>Background: </span><span>Congenital heart disease is the most prevalent form of primary congenital disability in newborns and is the leading cause of death in children with congenital malformations. It occurs in ap...
Role of Layer by Layer Irrigation by Povidone Iodine during Closure of Potentially Contaminated Wounds in Reduction of Surgical Site Infection
<strong>Background: </strong>surgical site infection (SSI) is the infections occurring up to 30 days after surgery that affect the incision, deep tissue at the operation site or involve the organs or body space. Infectio...
Evaluation of Capillary Network Abnormalities in Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion by Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography
<span>Objectives: </span><span>Is to detect the vascular morphological changes in the two intra retinal; layers superficial network layer and deep network layer by optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) in case...
Red Blood Cell Alloantibodies in Healthy Egyptian Blood Donors
<strong>Background: </strong>Alloantibodies are antibodies that are produced in response to foreign antigens, the main stimuli responsible for erythrocyte alloantibodies in healthy adult donors are previous pregnancies a...
Prevalence of Access Recirculation in Prevalent Arterio-Venous (A-V) Fistula Hemodialysis Patients and Its Effect on Hemodialysis Adequacy
<span>Background: </span><span>Assessment of access recirculation (AR) is crucial to dialysis efficiency and there is thus a need for a method yielding a highly accurate, fast, easy and economical measurement that can be...