Abstract

MARTINEZ GARCIA, Gretter  and  GUERRA CASTRO, Myra Margarita. Frequent dermatosis in geriatric patients of Matanzas. Rev. Med. Electrón. [online]. 2012, vol.34, n.3, pp. 309-320. ISSN 1684-1824.

Introduction: although the dermatological diseases are not a cause of mortality among the Cuban population, they are one of the factors generating morbidity that are frequently appreciated in elder people, with a great esthetic repercussion and possibility of getting malignant.  Objective: to define  the frequent dermatosis in geriatric patients of Matanzas. Methods: design: Cross-sectional, descriptive, observational study. Universe composed by 25 377 elder people of seven health areas of Matanzas. Sample: 380 geriatric patients carrying dermatologic diseases. Variables: genre, age, race, skin phototype, scholarship.   Results: we found an average of 7,6 % of dermatologic diseases in the cases studied; there it was a predominance of the female genre and of the age group from 60 to 64 years old. There it was also a prevalence of the white skin and the skin phototype II, with a low scholarship (junior high school).

Keywords : phototype; elder people; skin.

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