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Chronic medication use and inflammatory skin diseases: the power and limitations of the case-control study.

Stern RS

Department of Dermatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. rstern@bidmc.harvard.edu

The potential of newly introduced medications to cause acute inflammatory skin diseases has long been recognized. Less well accepted and not often systematically studied is the role of long-term drug use in inflammatory skin diseases such as eczema. Hypothesis-driven case-control studies provide what is probably the most efficient but far from easy method to evaluate and quantify observations from case reports and case series that suggest a drug etiology for chronic skin diseases.

Published 16 November 2007 in J Invest Dermatol, 127(12): 2709-10.
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