Associated cutaneous diseases in obese adult patients: A prospective study from a skin referral care center

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 248-252

  Al Mutairi, Nawaf ^a,b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b NONE   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Acanthosis nigricans; Acrochordon; Diabetes mellitus; Obesity

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOSIS NIGRICANS; ACNE VULGARIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITORING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DERMATOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOLOCATION; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; FIBROMA; FOLLICULITIS; HIRSUTISM; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPERANDROGENISM; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTERTRIGO; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; KUWAIT; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PALMOPLANTAR KERATODERMA; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX; SKIN DISEASE; STRIA; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; TINEA CRURIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; DERMATOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; KUWAIT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKIN DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953644646     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323597     Document Type: Article

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