BACKGROUND The Cardiff Acne Disability Index was originally developed in English for measuring quality of life of acne patients. Considering the psychosocial impact of this disease, it is important to have instruments culturally and linguistically validated for use in Brazilian adolescents. OBJECTIVE To translate the Cardiff Acne Disability Index into Brazilian Portuguese, culturally adapt it...

Hypnotic suggestion successfully alleviated the behavioral picking aspect of acne excoriée des juenes filles in a pregnant woman who had been picking at the acne lesions on her face for 15 years. Acne excoriée is a subset of psychogenic or neurotic excoriation. Conventional topical antibiotic treatment was used to treat the acne. Compared with other treatments for uncomplicated acne excoriée, h...

Background: Acne vulgaris is a common skin disease that affects not only teenagers but also the general population. Although acne is not physically disabling, its psychological impact can be striking, contributing to low self-esteem, depression, and anxiety. As a result, there is a significant demand for effective acne therapies. Antihistamine is a widely used medication to treat several allerg...

Bacterial hypercolonization of the sebaceous follicle, especially with Propionibacterium acnes, has been considered as a major causative factor for acne vulgaris [1, 2]. In addition, it is widely accepted that inflammation in acne may be mainly mediated by an immunological reaction to extracellular products of P. acnes, such as sebum free fatty acids which are proposed to be products of triglyc...

BACKGROUND There are contradictory reports on the relationship between acne vulgaris and cigarette smoking. The objective of this study was to examine the relation between acne and cigarette smoking in a case-control study. METHODS A questionnaire on smoking habits was offered to 350 patients with acne vulgaris and 350 patients suffering from skin diseases other than acne, aged 15-40 years, a...

OBJECTIVE To assess relationship between alexithymia and acne vulgaris in young people. METHODS A hundred and eleven subjects between 15 and 25 years of age referred to out-patient clinic of dermatology with acne and 78 subjects applied to family physician for complaints other than acne were included in patient and control groups of the study, respectively. A questionnaire to determine demogr...

A survey of 1066 healthy women and 1089 healthy men aged 18-70 years, performed to determine the prevalence of facial acne, showed that clinical acne was not confined to adolescents. Though it was more prevalent among men than women at 18, beyond the age of 23 clinical acne was more prevalent among women as the prevalence in men gradually declined. At 40-49 years 3% of men and 5% of women still...

Above all, acne is considered an adolescent affection. However, in literature as in daily life, female acne is becoming more and more common. According to the articles that cover this subject, the prevalence is estimated from 40% to 50%. The objective of our work was to make an overview of new data about female acne at the clinical and epidemiological level to be precise if female acne has to b...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES the aim of this study was to determine the approaches used to treat acne in clinical practice by Spanish dermatologists. A secondary objective of the study was to compare the practices of Spanish dermatologists with the Acne Global Alliance treatment algorithm and develop a Spanish treatment algorithm for acne. PATIENTS AND METHODS a multicenter, cross-sectional surv...

The pathogenesis of acne vulgaris is multifactorial and entails the interplay of hormonal, microbial and immunological events. The bacterium Propionibacterium acnes is involved in the induction of comedogenesis and maintenance of the inflammatory phase of acne. Toll-like Receptor 2 (TLR2) expressed on mononuclear inflammatory cells and possibly on keratinocytes and sebocytes is thought to be of...