Urea and sodium chloride in moisturisers for skin of the elderly - A comparative, double-blind, randomised study

Skin Pharmacology and Applied Skin Physiology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 166-174

  Kuzmina, Natalia ^a   Hagströmer, Lena ^a   Emtestam, Lennart ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Capacitance; Electrical impedance; Moisturisers; Sodium chloride; Transepidermal water loss; Urea

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE; UREA; WATER OIL CREAM;

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRY SKIN; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDRATION; IMPEDANCE; LEG; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENESCENCE; SKIN PROTECTION; SKIN WATER LOSS; STRATUM CORNEUM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; EMOLLIENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UREA;

EID: 0036086466     PISSN: 14222868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000063545     Document Type: Article

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