Younger age, male gender, and living in an urban area increase the likelihood of acne relapse among first-time isotretinoin users. A recent study from Canada established this fact with sufficient evidences.
Anick Bérard and his colleagues at University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, performed a nested case-control analysis to determine the predictors of acne relapse. Researchers took help of a population-based data of 17,351 first-time isotretinoin recipients assembled between 1984 and 2003.
A complete report containing all relevant details has been published recently in the British Journal of Dermatology. The authors write, “Several patient characteristics have been found to be associated with acne relapses“.
The study results demonstrated that the ‘Relapse’, which is the receipt of a second anti-acne medication found to be occurring in 7100 i.e. almost 41% patients. These patients were matched with 35,500 controls parameters of those patients who had not received any anti-acne medication.
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