ALMOST HALF OF THE EUROPEAN POPULATION HAVE SKIN PROBLEM: STUDY

Tue 05 October 2021:

According to a new study, nearly half (47.9%) of the European general population over the age of 18 has disclosed at least one dermatological disease in the previous 12 months.

According to the statistics, the most frequent skin illness among those surveyed is a fungal skin infection, which affects about one out of every ten persons (9.07 per cent).

Other common conditions, each affecting more than one in 20 people, were atopic dermatitis (eczema) (5.34 per cent), alopecia (5.22 per cent) and acne (5.49 per cent), Medical Daily reported.

“The fact that one in two people across Europe lives with a skin disease on a daily basis makes the skin the most affected organ in the body and as an organisation, we are therefore committed to making skin disease a public health priority,” said author Marie-Aleth Richard, Professor at the University Hospital of La Timone, Marseille France.

For the study presented at the EADV 30th Congress 2021, the research team included 44,689 adults from 27 European countries, including all countries from the European Union as well as the UK, Norway and Switzerland.

Preliminary findings showed that among 21,401 members of the general population, 47.9 per cent of people aged 18 years or older self-reported at least one skin condition.

On average, those people affected declared a median of two skin diseases, the study said.

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