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Bardia Sadr, Shahab Babakoohi, Ferial Fanian, Maryam Sarraf-Yazdy, Ali Kazerouni-Timsar, Mansour Nassiri-Kashani, Yahya Dowlati, Alireza Firooz,
Volume 1, Issue 2 (6-2010)
Abstract
Background and Aim: several studies have been conducted to evaluate skin pH in various diseases, but there are few reports in normal population. The aim of this study was to evaluate skin pH in healthy individuals.
Methods: Fifty healthy volunteers were enrolled in this study. The subjects were divided by age into 5 groups, i.e., 10-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50 and 51-60 years old. In each group, 5 females and 5 males were examined. A pH meter (Courage & Khazaka electronic GmbH, Germany) was used to measure pH in 8 different locations of the body (forehead, cheek, nasolabial fold, neck, forearm, dorsal side of hand, palm and leg).
Results: The mean values for pH in these locations were 5.25, 5.15, 5.06, 4.90, 4.75, 4.80, 4.69, and 4.83 respectively. pH was significantly higher in women (P<0.001). There was a significant difference between skin pH in different age groups (P=0.002). The highest and lowest amounts of pH belonged to the forehead (5.26 ± 0.68) and leg (4.69 ± 0.40), respectively.
Conclusion: Age and sex and location have remarkable effects on skin pH.
Amirhoushang Ehsani, Pedram Nourmohammdpour, Shima Sayanjali,
Volume 1, Issue 3 (9-2010)
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Connective tissue nevi are types of hamartoma with increased collagen in which the amounts of elastin may vary. This report introduces an 18-year-old case with various nodular lesions in upper thigh area. Performed biopsy suggested the diagnosis of collagenoma which is a sub-type of connective tissue nevus.
Ali Abbasi, Alireza Shariati, Hamid Asayesh, Mohammad Mahdi Ebrahimi,
Volume 2, Issue 3 (9-2011)
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Background and Aim: Pruritus is one of the most disabling complications in patients with chronic renal failure that have negative effect on patients' quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency of the uremic pruritus and its associated factors in hemodialysis patients referred to the dialysis centers in Golestan Province.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, all 375 patients referred to eight dialysis centers in Golestan Province were selected via census sampling method. Data were gathered by using demogeraphic and Yosipovitch pruritus questionnaires. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software through conducting t and chi square tests.
Results: The mean ± standard deviation of patients' age was 48.36 ± 13.27 years and 51.2% of patients were male. One hundred and eighty one (48.3%) patients had uremic pruritus. The lowest and highest frequency of pruritus among surveyed centers were 37.9% and 57.1%, respectively. 60.2 % of patients had localized pruritus and the most common location was back (68.8 %). There was a statistically significant correlation between uremic pruritus with number of dialysis session (P<0.001) and serum level of phosphorus (P<0.001).
Conclusion: The results indicated that uremic pruritus is still one of the most common problems in hemodialysis patients. Therefore it seems necessary providing ways to eliminating or reducing the problem.
Mohammad Babamiri, Davoud Ghasemi, Razieh Zare, Mohammad Abasi,
Volume 2, Issue 4 (12-2011)
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Background and Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychological and sociological factors influencing cosmetics usage by female students.
Methods: The statistical population comprised 250 female students of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences and Isfahan University were selected using a simple random sampling method and were asked to respond to the research questionnaires. NEO Personality Inventory was used to assess personality characteristics. Sociological factors that were assessed were comprised of body management, media consumption, religiousness, socio-economic status and social acceptance.
Results: There was a significant association between body management, media consumption, religiousness, socio-economic status and social acceptance with cosmetics use. Regression analysis showed that predictive variables were able to predict 41% of attitude toward cosmetics use and body management was the best predictor of it.
Conclusion: Sociological, but not psychological, factors influence cosmetics use by female university students.
Narges Alizadeh, Rasool Hassanzadeh, Sina Khajeh Jahromi, Mohsen Taherkhani,
Volume 3, Issue 3 (9-2012)
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Hair loss can be viewed a problem from different perspectives: as a disease, a disorder which affects appearance of an individual, and its psychological effects. Therefore, it is crucial to determine the causes and types of hair loss. This review summarized hair loss evaluation methods with significant emphasis on their clinical aspects. According to relevant literature reviews, the major approaches to hair loss are taking medical history, primary investigations and detailed hair examination. Although several invasive and non-invasive, clinical and paraclinical examinations can be used for hair loss assessment, it is generally accepted that using clinical evaluation methods and physical examinations are more efficient. In conclusion, diagnosing hair loss is complex and sometimes time-consuming process. However, precise hair examination may lead to the suspicion of an endocrine disorder.
Hassan Baniasadi,
Volume 3, Issue 4 (12-2012)
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Background and Aim: The women’s main purpose of cosmetic rhinoplasty is to have a nose that they think has a better harmony with their face, so they could reach to a more desirable body image. This study investigated the effects of cosmetic nose surgery on women`s body image.
Methods: Thirty women referred to the private clinics of cosmetic surgeons for nose cosmetic surgery were selected. The multidimensional body-self relations questionnaire developed by Cash (1998) was employed to measure the women`s body image. This questionnaire was filled out before and five months after rhinoplasty.
Results: Using paired t test, the analyses of the data demostrated that nose cosmetic rhinoplasty increased the levels of women`s satisfaction of their subjective body and subjective nose images (P=0.0001 and , respectively).
Conclusion: The findings of the present study showed that cosmetic nose surgery increases the of levels of women’s satisfaction of their body image and it causes the person to have higher satisfaction of her nose and body image.
Reza Safdari, Alireza Firooz, Hourieh Masourian,
Volume 7, Issue 3 (10-2016)
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ackground and Aim: Psoriasis is a complex disease with lifelong social and emotional consequences. It also impairs quality of life (QoL) and needs prolonged management. So in addition to suitable treatment, self management strategies are required to improve patient health and QoL. On the other hand, mobile phone applications have changed the interaction of patients with health services. The objective of this study was recognition of informative and educational parameters for the development of an application for self management of psoriasis.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 100 psoriatic patients and 26 dermatologists were randomly selected. The investigation. Tool was a questionnaire developed by researchers including demographic and clinical data, education and management of life style, and capabilities of application for self management of psoriasis, which its validity was approved by a group of experts and its reliability was confirmed by test- retest.
Results: The mean scores for importance of demographic and clinical data, education and management of life style, and capabilities of self management application were 80.6%, 85.7%, 88.8% by the patients, and 83.7%, 71%, and 75% by dermatologists, respectively.
Conclusion: The recognition of self management parameters considered important by patients, as those involved directly with the disease, and by dermatologists, as experts in the management of disease, are essential in the efficacy and applicability of self management of psoriasis. Patients who know the benefits and risks of self management programs and have self-confidence are more compliant with treatment programs determined by their physicians, and manage their disease more seriously.
Adele Kavehzadeh, Sara Beigrezaei, Mohammad Ali Nilforoushzadeh, Asieh Heidari, Sayed Mohsen Hosseini,
Volume 7, Issue 4 (1-2017)
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Background and Aim: The present world is a world of short-sectional relationships, most people identify themselves by acknowledging their appearance instead of considering their inherited or acquired different characteristics. In this study, we decided to compare the body image between patients with skin diseases and healthy participants.
Methods: In this case-control study, 300 (150 cases and 150 controls) individuals aged from 18 to 64 years were selected in the Isfahan city. Satisfaction with body image and feelings of respondents regarding their apparent looks in different situations and different conditions were investigated using an a researcher-constructed questionnaire. To analyze the collected data, we used the analysis of covariance and compared the means.
Results: Single, younger, and less educated women had body image scores higher and more positive look to their bodies. Healthy people had higher score of body image than the patients with skin diseases. There was no significant relationship between gender and body image scores.
Conclusion: Skin diseases had an important role in body image. So we suggest that the effect of other diseases, that somehow affect the appearance of people on body image, be examined deeply for each disease.
Shohreh Emdadi, Sahar Bijari, Fatemeh Rostami, Ziba Bagheri Sahamishoar, Majid Barati, Maryam Farhadian,
Volume 8, Issue 2 (7-2017)
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Background and Aim: Body image is one of the main factors of self efficacy. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between body image and self-efficacy among female students in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 408 female students of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences in 2017 with a stratified sampling method. To gather data, we used Multidimensional Body Self-Relation Questionnaire (MBSRQ) and general self-efficacy questionnaire and recorded demographic variables. Data were analyzed with SPSS-21 software using Pearson correlation and linear regression tests.
Results: The dimensions of body areas satisfaction and illness orientation were evaluated at relatively desirable and moderate levels, respectively. Students' self-efficacy was also estimated at 60.05% of the mean score of the maximum achievable score at the moderate level. The results of regression analysis showed that the dimensions of the illness orientation, overweight preoccupation, fitness orientation, self-classified weight and appearance evaluation predicted the self-efficacy among the female students. In total, different dimensions of body image explained 14.1% of the variance of self-efficacy.
Conclusion: We suggest providing training packages about body image dimensions improvement to enhance the self-efficacy of university female students.
Alemeh Dehnabi, Hamid Radsepehr,
Volume 8, Issue 3 (10-2017)
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Background and Aim: Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus do not have a flexible approach against stress and have difficalty regulating their cognitive skills performance. The aim of our study was to evaluate the impact of cognitive-behavioral group therapy on reducing perceived body image stress and improving cognitive flexibility among women with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Methods: In this research, 24 women referred to rheumatology clinics in Mashhad between the years 2015 and 2016 were selected and randomly assigned into two experimental (cognitive-behavioral group therapy) and control groups. Before and after interventions, Body Image Concern Inventory (BICI), Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI), Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ) and Clinical Global Improvement Scale (CGI) were filled out for both groups. The data was analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) in SPSS-19 software with the significance level of 0.05. Further, percentages of improvement were calculated.
Results: Cognitive-behavioral group therapy compared to the control group led to a significant reduction in body image concern, and improvement of cognitive flexibility (P<0.001). The level of treatment satisfaction and overall improvement were significantly higher in intervention group and the improvement in all the research variables were more than those of the subjects in the control group (P<0.001).
Conclusion: Cognitive-behavioral group therapy was effective in reducing body image concern and improving cognitive flexibility in women with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Negar Sadeghi, Alireza Moradi, Jafar Hasani, Shahram Mohammadkhani,
Volume 9, Issue 2 (7-2018)
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Background and Aim: The cosmetic surgery is one of the prevalent phenomenons in recent decades. Body image is a key factor for interest in cosmetic surgery, but body image is a multidimensional concept and all its dimensions should be studied. This study aimed to study cognitive, emotional and behavioral dimensions of body image in women interested in cosmetic surgery.
Methods: This study was a cross-sectional research with causal-comparative method. A sample of 600 female students, age 18 to 35 years, were selected from universities in Tehran by using multi-stage cluster random sampling methid, who completed a set of questionnaires including “Beliefs About Appearance Scale (BAAS)“, “Body Areas Satisfaction Scale (BASS)“, “the Body Image Coping Strategies Inventory (BICSI)“ and Acceptance of Cosmetic Surgery Scale (ACSS). The collected data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).
Results: The students who were interested in cosmetic surgery got a higher score in components of body investment as cognitive dimension and body dissatisfaction as emotional dimension. Among the three behavioral components of body image, there was significant difference only in appearance fixing coping (P<0.0001) and there were no significant differences in acceptance and avoidant strategies between students.
Conclusion: All of the cognitive, emotional and behavioral dimensions of body image are important in cosmetic surgery, and women interested in cosmetic surgery not only had body dissatisfaction, but also had dysfunctional attitudes about appearance important in interpersonal relationships, personal achievement and self-concept, and used strategies based on body modification. These findings can be used in prevention and intervention programs.
Saba Mehrandish, Shahla Mirzaee,
Volume 9, Issue 4 (1-2019)
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Fungi are eukaryotic organisms that potentially have the ability to cause disease in humans and animals. Fungal infections are called mycosis, which are divided into four types of superficial, cutaneous, subcutaneous and systemic, depending on the area of the body involved. Though cutaneous mycoses are rarely life-threatening infections, they can isolate the patient socially due to the disfigurement of the tissues they caused, as a result of which, treatment has always been an important issue. On the other hand the similarity of fungi to mammalian cells led to difficulties in the development of novel antifungal drugs. Consequently, in recent years, extensive efforts have been made to design and develop novel drug delivery systems with better efficacy for drug delivery of conventional anti-fungal drugs. In this study, we compared conventional forms and novel drug delivery systems of a number of antifungal drugs. All studies confirm the relative priority of novel drug delivery systems to conventional forms in terms of penetration, release, and antifungal effects.
Mehrnoosh Jamshidi, Sara Hashemi,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (4-2019)
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Background and Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between perfectionism and depression with body image in women asking for cosmetic surgery.
Methods: In this study 360 women (20-40 years old) asking for cosmetic surgery (nose and chest) in north of Tehran in year 1397 were selected by convenience sampling. The questionnaires that were used included multidimensional perfectionism in Tehran (2007), Beck depression (BDI-II 1996) and body image (MBSRQ 1983) and to analyze the findings, multi-variant regression analysis and Pearson correlation coefficient were used.
Results: The results showed there is an inverse relationship between perfectionism and body image. That means higher perfectionism shows that the body image is weaker. Also there is an inverse relationship between depression and body image. That means higher depression shows that the body image is weaker. There is a direct relationship between perfectionism and depression. That means high perfectionism in subjects shows that depression is high in them (P<0.05).
Conclusion: Perfectionism and depression can predict the body image, perfectionism prediction was stronger, as it had a higher beta value than depression.
Shokoofeh Samadian, Roya Koochakentezar, Mahnaz Estaki, Anita Baghdassarians, Afsaneh Ghanbaripanah,
Volume 10, Issue 2 (8-2019)
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Background and Aim: Cosmetic surgery is one of the last achievements of human being for creation of beauty. The purpose of this study was to explain the relationship between personality traits and perceived stress with body image.
Methods: This is a correlation type study relying on structural equation modeling. A total of 350 applicants for cosmetic surgery who referred to surgical centers in northern Tehran in 2017 were voluntarily selected by convenient and purposive sampling method. They filled the demographic, perceived stress by Cohen et al (1983), the personality by NEO, body image concern by Littelton questionnaires .Data analysis was done at descriptive and inferential levels using version 24 of SPSS, AMOS and with normality tests, confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), structural equation modeling.
Results: The results showed that there is a significant relationship between personality traits and body image concern. There were significant relationships between perceived stress and body image concern, and also between personality traits and perceived stress. Also, the structural model of the body image concern based on personality traits and perceived stress had a favorable fit.
Conclusion: It is necessary to use standardized scales to understand and evaluate psychological pre- cosmetic surgery, and this screening can reduce the number of unnecessary cosmetic surgeries and increase the satisfaction of surgical outcomes.
Mozhgan Soltani, Zohre Latifi, Shokoofe Moosavi,
Volume 10, Issue 4 (1-2020)
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Background and Aim: The purpose of the present study was to asses a the effect of self-healing education on self compassion, body image, concern and improvement of disease process in women with skin cancer.
Methods: A quasi-experimental research with pre-test, post-test and follow up with control group was conducted. The population included all women with skin cancer referring to Shahid Rahimi Hospital in Khorramabad city during 2018to2019. Thirthy four volunteers were selected and randomly assignes into two experimental and control groups (each group sequential included 16-18 people). All participants in the experimental and control group completed the self-compassion questionnaire, body image concern and clinical data on cancer course as a pretest. Education of self-healing therapy was performed for 12 sessions of 90 minutes on the experimental group, but the control group did not receive the intervention. At the end for both groups, the post-test was performed and follow up was done up to two months. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 19.
Results: Self-healing approach increased self-compassion including: self-kindness, correct judgment, common humanity sense, mindfulness (P<0/01) and decreased body image concern, isolation and over identification (P<0/05) levels in women with skin cancer. Although self-healing education affected improvement process in skin cancer but this effectwas not statistically significant.
Conclusion: Self-healing approach improves self-compassion and reduces body image concern in women with skin cancer.
Azam Fattahi, Ensieh Lotfali, Sayna Iranpanah, Yasaman Rezaee, Reza Ghasemi,
Volume 11, Issue 1 (4-2020)
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Superficial dermatophytoses are among the most common infectious disease. The most commonly used antifungal categories reazoles, polyenes and echinocandins. Due to the limited number of available antifungal drugs, toxicity and the emergence of resistant (intrinsic or acquired) strains, antifungal strategy needs to be developed. Recently the researchers try to find alternative antifungal agents. This review emphasizes the action and resistance mechanisms to antifungal drugs, the search for new agents, drug- resistant genes, and the application of combination therapy and immunomodulators (using cytokines and gamma interferon which can provide novel insights to fighting fungal infections). A comprehensive review study was performed using the keywords including Candida, antifungal drugs and drug resistance in valid medical databases, mainly PubMed. Articles that were most relevant to the purposes of the study were selected and studied. Problems with antifungal resistance and the emergence of resistant strains of fungal has produced an enormous demand for new antifungal agents. The clinical complexity of patients with resistant mycoses prevents an easy approach to the detection, prevention, and management of antifungal drug resistance. Continuing investigation will illustrate the role of susceptibility testing for resistant mycoses and on clinical strategies used to fighting antifungal drug resistance in pathogenic fungi.
Mercedeh Yari, Abdollah Shafiabady, Jafar Hasani,
Volume 11, Issue 2 (7-2020)
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Background and Aim: Cosmetic surgery as a special and common form of bodybuilding culture has always been a controversial topic in contemporary society. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of emotion-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy with mindfulness based cognitive therapy on body image and cognitive fusion in adolescent girls seeking cosmetic surgery.
Methods: This was a quasi- experimental intervention study with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all female secondary school students in the 1st District of Tehran in the academic year 1397-98. From this community, 30 students were selected based on cluster sampling and randomly divided into three groups: 10 in the first group, 10 in the second group and 10 in the control group (8 sessions with mindfulness programs occasionally). Data were gathered through Multidimensional Self-Body Questionnaire (MBSRQ), Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (CFQ) and multivariate analysis of covariance.
Results: The results showed that cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness treatment were effective in improving the body image of adolescent girls seeking cosmetic surgery (P<0.05) and there was no significant difference between the two treatments (P<0.662).
Conclusion: Cognitive-behavioral therapy and mindfulness therapy are both effective to improve body image and reduce cognitive interference.
Negar Sadeghi, Elahe Faraji, Mostafa Allami,
Volume 11, Issue 3 (10-2020)
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Background and Aim: The aim of present study was to evaluate psychometric properties of the Amputee the Body Image Scale (ABIS).
Methods: A sample of 200 amputee patients were selected from amputee veteran and amputee people under the protection of Red Cerscent by using convenience sampling and asked to respond to the Persian version of The Amputee Body Image Scale (ABIS), Bell Adjustment Inventory (BAI) and Body Areas Satisfaction Scale (BASS). The reliability of the inventory was assessed by internal consistency and item-rest correlations. Also; in order to investigate the validity of the inventory, confirmatory factor analysis, criterion validity and convergent validity were used.
Results: The Cronbach’s alpha (0.89) and item-rest correlations indicated satisfactory reliability of the inventory. The results of confirmatory factor analysis confirmed one factor structure for scale. Also, criterion validity of the scale with the Bell Adjustment Inventory (BAI) and convergent validity of the scale with the Body Areas Satisfaction Scale (BASS) was satisfactory.
Conclusion: The findings showed that the Persian version of the Amputee Body Image Scale is a suitable tool in assessing of body image in amputee patients and can be used in research and intervention fields in Iranian patients.
Afsarolmoluk Hadadian, Azin Ayatollahi, Akram Miraminmohammadi, Mahshid Shahrzadkavkani, Alireza Firooz, Ensieh Lotfali, Mahsa Fattahi,
Volume 12, Issue 3 (11-2021)
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Introduction: Dermatophytosis are micro-organisms which can lead to skin diseases. In rare occasions they can have atypical skin manifestations, which could result in delay in diagnosis.
Case Report: A 20-year-old Iranian boy was referred to our center with a 5-month history of circular, symmetrical, itchy crusted skin lesions on his groin. Direct microscopy, culture test and PCR-sequencing of ITS regions of the rDNA gene were conducted and showed T. indotinea as the causative agent. Based on antifungal susceptibility test oral pulse therapy with itraconazole 100 mg twice daily for 1 week combined with topical clotrimazole cream for 1 month was initiated, which cleared the lesions.
Conclusion: This case report is of significance since T. indotinea produces atypical skin lesions, as well as, multidrug resistance to antifungal agents.
Parviz Toosi, Seyedhasan Etemadzadeh, Mohammadreza Sedighimoghadam, Batool Mousavi, Seyedehfatemeh Nouri Rahimabadi, Fahimeh Abdollahimajd, Mohammad Roustanezhad Arabani, Aliakbar Babaei, Shahram Ariaeenejad,
Volume 13, Issue 3 (11-2022)
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Background and Aim: National studies on the prevalence of skin problems of the Iranian are very limited. The aim of this study was to determine the skin complaints of adult male population.
Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 1419 men over 35 years from 32 provinces participated by invitation. Demographic information, underlying disease history and presence of skin problems/diseases were collected by dermatologists. The participants were evaluated in terms of the presence of skin complaints (itching, burning, dry skin, redness, scaling, and skin color change); and any skin complaints with type, severity and location.
Results: About one third 31.6% of the Iranian male middle-aged and elderly, had an underlying disease (n=449). High blood pressure, diabetes, and neurological disorders constituted 79.7% of the chronic diseases. In total, n=344 persons (24.2%) were rated as having skin complaint. Most people who had a skin complaint reported more than one skin complaint 75.6% (n=260). The most common skin complaints were related to itching 14.6% (n=207) and dry skin 5.6% (23.3%) in studied population, which were mostly mild 59.3% (n=204) and localize 58.4% (n=201). The use of corticosteroids was stated in 7.2%(n=103) and the most common types of usage was oral 62.1% (n=64). There was significant correlation between skin complaint and occupational exposure (P=0.01); lower education level (P=0.05); corticosteroid usage in general (P<0.001) and both oral (P=0.02) and topical (P<0.001) corticosteroid.
Conclusion: Skin complaint is common among middle-aged and elderly Iranian men. The most common skin complaint are mostly mild and localized itching and dry skin.
