GP Registrar, Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, Hamilton.
Head of Department, Department of Dermatology, Te Whatu Ora Waikato; Honorary Professor, The University of Auckland, Hamilton.
N Z Med J. 2024 Sep 6;137(1602):150-154. doi: 10.26635/6965.6643.
There is a lack of literature concerning dermatological conditions affecting patients of Pacific ethnicity.
To investigate dermatological conditions in patients of Pacific ethnicity referred to dermatology from 2016 to 2022.
Single-centre study of electronic referrals to dermatology from January 2016 to May 2022.
Pacific ethnicity was recorded for 1.7% of 30,769 referrals to dermatology, under-representing census data for the local population (5.4%). Dermatological diagnoses were eczema in 36% of patients, benign skin lesions in 11% and skin infection in 8.3%.
Eczema was the most common reason for referral to dermatology in patients of Pacific ethnicity in the Waikato Region.
关于影响太平洋族裔患者的皮肤科疾病的文献较少。
调查 2016 年至 2022 年间皮肤科转介至皮肤科的太平洋族裔患者的皮肤科疾病情况。
对 2016 年 1 月至 2022 年 5 月皮肤科电子转介的单中心研究。
30769 例皮肤科转介中，有 1.7%记录为太平洋族裔，低于当地人口普查数据（5.4%）。皮肤科诊断为湿疹的患者占 36%，良性皮肤病变占 11%，皮肤感染占 8.3%。
在怀卡托地区，湿疹是太平洋族裔患者转诊至皮肤科的最常见原因。
