Mental Health
Recent Rosacea Blog Posts
One of the startling outcomes of some research into the true burden of rosacea is just how much life expectancy a sufferer of severe rosacea would be willing to trade for clearance of their symptoms. The study which was commissioned by Galderma has unearthed a striking statistic -many rosacea sufferers who say that their […]
Despite the benign title of this paper – Willingness to pay and quality of life with rosacea, there is something interesting going on here. What could be gained by asking rosacea sufferers how much they’d pay for a cure? Researchers have come up with the idea of quantifying the burden one feels from a disease […]
Last month I highlighted a recent publication Correlates of health-related quality of life in women with severe facial blemishes under the title of `rosacea can make sufferers life miserable‘. The paper has since been picked up by the Ohio State University news service where the author has added some high level comments. Science Daily: Corrective […]
This study addresses something obvious to us all: rosacea can strongly affect how we feel about ourselves. Correlates of health-related quality of life in women with severe facial blemishes. International Journal of Dermatology. 2006 Feb;45(2):111-5. Rajesh Balkrishnan, PhD, Amy J. McMichael, MD, Judy Y. Hu, MD, Fabian T. Camacho, MS, Katherine R. Shew, BS, Anne […]
