Rosacea and melanoma strongly linked, big data says
Source: Medical Republic, July 2024
Rosacea patients have more than five times the risk of developing a malignant melanoma and a greater risk of several other systemic conditions, according to researchers.
The research, published in Nature, involved two groups of 122,444 patient medical records each – one group for patients with rosacea, and one for those without. Each group of patients was 69% female, with a mean age of 55 years at the time when the record was created.
“The results are compelling. It’s a lot of patients,” Clinical Associate Professor Stephen Schumack, a general clinical dermatologist at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, told TMR.