Kamboj Sana, Blalock Travis W
Ms. Kamboj is with Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr. Blalock is with the Department of Dermatology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.
J Clin Aesthet Dermatol. 2025 Apr;18(4):28-32.
The authors sought to determine the frequency and methods of race reporting in dermabrasion clinical trials.
A PubMed search for terms: "dermabrasion," "derm-abrasion," and "derm abrasion" was conducted, yielding 1,786 papers. The "Clinical Trial" and "Randomized Control Trial" filters were applied. Non-English manuscripts were excluded. Remaining manuscripts were manually screened. Forty-one papers met final inclusion criteria.
Forty-six percent (n=19) of studies included mention of race, skin color, or Fitzpatrick skin type (FST). Four studies reported FST of 78 dermabrasion participants. Of these, 19 percent had FST I, 27 percent had FST II, 32 percent had FST III, 17 percent had FST IV, and 1 percent had FST V. Three patients (4%) were lost to follow-up and did not have FSTs reported. Twenty-two percent (n=9) of the studies including 513 patients reported race or skin color. The races of 107 (21%) could be definitively extracted. Of these 107 patients, 94 percent were White, five percent were Black, and one percent were Asian.
Our search was limited to PubMed-indexed articles which were categorized as 1) clinical trials or 2) randomized control trials. Articles that were incorrectly indexed in accordance with the search tool may have been inadvertently excluded.
Our analysis suggests that the collection and reporting of racial demographic information has been rare in dermabrasion clinical trials. The absence of this demographic information limits the generalizability of the results. Given the health disparities that arise due to racism, investigators should collect and report participant races to improve risk stratification and transparency.
作者试图确定皮肤磨削术临床试验中种族报告的频率和方法。
在PubMed上搜索“皮肤磨削术”“皮肤磨皮术”和“皮肤磨蚀”等术语，共得到1786篇论文。应用“临床试验”和“随机对照试验”过滤器。排除非英文手稿。对剩余手稿进行人工筛选。41篇论文符合最终纳入标准。
46%（n = 19）的研究提及了种族、肤色或菲茨帕特里克皮肤类型（FST）。四项研究报告了78名皮肤磨削术参与者的FST。其中，19%为FST I型，27%为FST II型，32%为FST III型，17%为FST IV型，1%为FST V型。三名患者（4%）失访，未报告FST。22%（n = 9）的研究纳入了513名患者，报告了种族或肤色。其中107名患者（21%）的种族可以明确提取。在这107名患者中，94%为白人，5%为黑人，1%为亚洲人。
我们的搜索仅限于PubMed索引的文章，这些文章被归类为1）临床试验或2）随机对照试验。根据搜索工具索引错误的文章可能被无意中排除。
我们的分析表明，在皮肤磨削术临床试验中，种族人口统计学信息的收集和报告很少见。这种人口统计学信息的缺失限制了结果的普遍性。鉴于种族主义导致的健康差异，研究人员应收集和报告参与者的种族，以改善风险分层和透明度。
