Minority burn patients suffer more scar-related itch and fatigue than White patients, leading to longer, more difficult recoveries, according to a new study in the Journal of Burn Care and Research.
The lead author of the study is Haig Yenikomshian, M.D., a plastic surgeon and Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery, Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
(USC).
A large majority of adult burn survivors experience significant itch associated with scarring, and many suffer from it for years. But certain demographic groups like Asians, Blacks and Hispanics are genetically more likely to form thicker scars than White patients because they tan more easily...
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