Symptoms, not signs, may aid in diagnosis of rosacea in patients with skin of color

NEW YORK — Signs of rosacea may be different in patients with darker skin types, but the symptoms remain the same, according to a presentation here.
Hilary E. Baldwin, MD, medical director at the Acne Treatment & Research Center and clinical associate professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center, opened her presentation on rosacea at the Skin of Color Update 2023 meeting with a slide of the epidemiology of the disease in the United States.
“Everything on this slide is wrong,” Baldwin said.
“The precise epidemiology is clearly unknown,” she continued. “We

NEW YORK — Signs of rosacea may be different in patients with darker skin types, but the symptoms remain the same, according to a presentation here.
Hilary E. Baldwin, MD, medical director at the Acne Treatment & Research Center and clinical associate professor at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center, opened her presentation on rosacea at the Skin of Color Update 2023 meeting with a slide of the epidemiology of the disease in the United States.
“Everything on this slide is wrong,” Baldwin said.
“The precise epidemiology is clearly unknown,” she continued. “We