A person suffering from diabetes may of course become afflicted with any form of skin disease, but there are a number of dermatoses which have long been recognized as being directly caused by diabetes, and which improve or grow worse as the amount of sugar in the urine diminishes or ...
Skin problems are often the first sign of serious underlying health problems, such as diabetes and lung cancer.
Around one in 50 people in the UK havepsoriasis, a condition causing raised pink or red skin patches (plaques) with white, silvery scales on your scalp, hands, knees, elbows and lower legs, or sometimes across your whole body. It can affect your nails and joints too, and the plaques ma...
Diabetes is a debilitating, life-threatening disease accounting in 2015 for the death of 5 million people worldwide. According to new estimations, 415 million adults currently suffer from the disease, and this number is expected to rise to 642 million by 2040. High glucose blood levels also aff...
necrobiosis lipoidica,necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum- skin disease marked by thin shiny patches (especially on the legs); often associated with diabetes mellitus pemphigus- a skin disease characterized by large thin-walled blisters (bullae) arising from normal skin or mucous membrane ...
Out of 82 patients in whom we suspected dermatoses strongly associated with diabetes, the most common condition was pruritus in 36.6% of the cases.Conclusions: Bacterial skin infections and dermatophytosis were the most common diabetic dermatological lesions in the present study. 展开 DOI: 10.18203...
causing hair loss. You can lose hair from any part of the body, but it's mostly from the face (such as eyelashes) and the scalp. Some immune diseases, as well as having a family member withalopecia, may increase your chance of getting this condition. Most people with alopecia don't ...
Oxidative stress, which is thought to play a central pathogenic role in the pathogenesis of MetS, is a condition of oxidant/antioxidant imbalance in which the net amount of reactive oxygen species (ROS) exceeds the antioxidant capacity of the body [1, 5]. Excessive ROS can react with cellular...
Eczema herpeticum is a condition with a somewhat misleading name, as it suggests there has to be eczema, but any skin problem that breaches the skin barrier can be complicated by herpes simplex (although eczema is the most common cause of barrier dysfunction). Often mistaken for impetigo, it...
(Fig.2g). Compared to other standard adhesives used in the NICU designed to be delicate on the skin, Ecoflex has a peel force 15 and 10 times smaller than Tegaderm and Kind Removal tape, respectively (Fig.2h)17. In a clinical test on 50 neonates observing changes in skin condition (...