Volume 24, Issue 106, November - December, 2020

Correlation between Lipid Profile and Acne Vulgaris

Firas Fakhir Altameemi^♦

¹Department of Dermatology & Venereology, Alsadr teaching hospital, Basra, Iraq

^♦Corresponding author
Firas Fakhir Altameemi; Basra, Iraq; Email: uday_sajad@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Objective: assessment of lipid profile in acne patients and its relationship with acne occurrence and severity. Methods: A case-control study carried out in a private outpatient clinic during the period from March 2018 to June 2019, in the department of dermatology, Basrah, Iraq. Results: The study included 124 subjects divided into two groups, 62 patients with acne and 62 healthy matched control (there was no significant difference between control and acne groups in their age and gender). Serum TC and LDL was significantly higher in acne patients, while both HDL and TG did not differ significantly between both groups. Mean HDL was significantly higher in acne female patients compared to female control, while the rest of the variables did not show significant difference. There were no significant differences between various lipid parameters according to increased severity of acne. Conclusions: The current work highlights some important lipid abnormalities in acne patients which involved HDL mostly, while no association with acne severity was noted in the present work.

Keywords: Minocycline, Acne, Therapy

Medical Science, 2020, 24(106), 4026-4030

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