Lebanon | Lebanon7 | Lebanon8 | Sudan9 | Sudan10 | East Timor11 | Cambodia8 | |
Location | Middle East | Middle East | Middle East | Africa | Africa | South-eastern Asia | South-eastern Asia |
Climate | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | Mediterranean | Savannah | Savannah | Tropical rainforest | Tropical rainforest |
Period studied | January 2018 to May 2019 | April 2007 to September 2014 | June 1992 to July 2001 | March 2014 to February 2015 | January 2010 to January 2011 | September 1999 to February 2000 | March 1992 to September 1993 |
Patients, n | 549 | 1658 | 160 | 542 | 438 | 193 | 278 |
Mean age | 35 | 32 | 30.5 | 34 | |||
Percentage of men (%) | 87.4 | 91 | 77.3 | 93.2 | 100 | ||
Disease category (%) | |||||||
Dermatitis and eczema | 27.1 | 27 | 44.4 | 38.7 | 21.9* | 16.1† | 8.6 |
Cutaneous mycoses | 13.8 | 15 | 16.2 | 22.5 | 10 | 23.3 | 78.5 |
Bacterial skin infection | 9.3 | 3 | 10 | 15.5 | 7.9 | ||
Viral skin disease | 7.5 | 11 | 11.9 | 3.5 | 6.8 | 17.1 | |
Acne vulgaris | 6.6 | 4 | 10.7 | 6.6 | 1 | ||
Benign neoplasm | 5.1 | 5 | 11.9 | 3.3 | 1 | ||
Urticaria | 4.6 | 3 | 5.3 | 3.4 | 0 | ||
STD | 1.8 | 2 | 1.6 | 0 | |||
Alopecia | 2.9 | 5 | 4 | 2.7 | 0 | ||
Disorders of pigmentation | 2.7 | 1 | 8.7‡ | 0 |
*Lichen simplex chronicus (7.1%), asteatotic eczema (2.7%), seborrhoeic eczema (2.5%) and unspecified dermatitis (9.6%) were added together.
†Contact dermatitis (9.3%), seborrhoeic dermatitis (1.6%) and non-specific dermatitis (5.2%) were added together.
‡Melasma (6.2%) and dermatosis papulosa nigra (2.5%) were added together.
STD, sexually transmitted disease.