Dermatological screening of a middle-aged and elderly population: the Rotterdam Study

The prevalence of several skin diseases increases with age, in part due to age-related physio-pathological alterations.¹ The global burden of disease project (GBD) ^2,3 presented a comprehensive overview of the burden due to skin diseases across different age groups. However, the point prevalences of many common skin diseases, especially in elderly and non-institutionalized settings, are still unknown ⁴. In this study, we estimated the point prevalence and age- and sex-adjusted standardized prevalence rates of common inflammatory and (pre)malignant skin diseases in a cross-sectional study in a middle-aged to elderly population.

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