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Relationship of acne with menstrual period
Vaswani Neena Khanna, KR Pandhi
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Vaswani Neena Khanna
Correspondence Address:
Vaswani Neena Khanna
| How to cite this article: Khanna VN, Pandhi K R. Relationship of acne with menstrual period. Indian J Dermatol Venereol Leprol 1991;57:138-140 |
Copyright: (C)1991 Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology, and Leprology
Abstract
The study was undertaken to compare the pre-menstrual and post-menstrual profile of women with adolescent acne. The non-inflammatory and inflammatory acne lesions in thirty two women patients with adolescent acne were counted at weekly intervals over a total of 96 menstrual periods. The mean of the acne lesions in the pre-menstrual phase was compared with that in the post-menstrual phase. In 67.71% of the periods observed, there was a decrease in the noninflammatory acne lesions. There was a mean reduction in the non-inflammatory and inflammatory lesions count of 2.30±4.89 and 3.69±2.92 respectively and this reduction was statistically highly significant (p<0.0001). These findings corroborate the general notice that there is an improvement of acne in the post-menstrual phase.
Keywords: Acne vulgaris, Menstrual period
