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Epidemiology

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  • nearly all adults have some evidence of cutaneous scarring
  • annually:
    • 100 million people acquire new scars, mostly from elective operations but a significant minority are from minor trauma
    • around four million new scars are from thermal injuries; thermal injuries seem more likely to progress to hypertrophic scars
  • particularly for keloid scars, there seems to be predilection for:
    • particular races eg Asian and Afrocaribbean skin
    • onset from teenage years to early adult life
    • female gender; this may be biased by the number of ear piercing procedures that produce keloid scars
    • inherited tendency to disease by a variety of transmission patterns eg familial or autosomal

Reference:

  1. Sund B. New developments in wound care. London: PJB Publications 2000: 1-255 (Clinica Report CBS 836).

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