@article{article_454426, title={Changes in incidence and age distribution of scabies: A retrospective cohort study in a tertiary hospital}, journal={Archives of Clinical and Experimental Medicine}, volume={4}, pages={21–24}, year={2019}, DOI={10.25000/acem.454426}, author={Aktaş, Habibullah and Cebecik, Aybala}, keywords={Scabies,gender,young population}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;">Aim: Scabies is a pruritic skin disease caused
by an ectoparasite named sarcoptes scabies var hominis. It sometimes makes endemics
depending on lifestyles of communities. In this study, we tried to point out incidence
and demographic factors for scabies in recent years. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;">Methods: A retrospective review was carried out
in patients with scabies diagnosis between 2013 January and 2018 July at dermatology
outpatient clinic of Karabuk Research and Training Hospital. Age and gender of
patients, and season of diagnosis were recorded from hospital database. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;">Results: In this study, we found that incidence
of scabies increased from 0.4 % to 1% between study period (r=0.886, p=0.001 ).
Mean age of scabies patients decreased from 49.7 years to 31.4 years within 5
years (r=-0.753, p=0.006). There were more female patients than male patients
(56% vs 44%), and their mean age was older than males (44 years vs 37 years) (p=0.001). </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:200%;"> </p> <pre style="line-height:200%;background:#FFFFFF;"> <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:200%;font-family:’Times New Roman’, serif;color:#000000;">Conclusion: Scabies cases are increasing in number and mean age of patients are decreasing gradually at recent years. </span> </pre> <p> </p> <p> <b> </b> </p> <b> </b>}, number={1}, publisher={Mustafa HASBAHÇECİ}