LAUSR.org creates dashboard-style pages of related content for over 1.5 million academic articles. Sign Up to like articles & get recommendations!

Under‐representation of people of African ancestry in publications on the cutaneous manifestations of COVID‐19: coincidence or physiology?

Photo by atikahakhtar from unsplash

Recent publications have highlighted the rarity of patients with dark skin amongst Covid19-related skin eruptions.1 Indeed, very few patients of non-European descent were reported amongst 318 cases of Covid19-related perniosis… Click to show full abstract

Recent publications have highlighted the rarity of patients with dark skin amongst Covid19-related skin eruptions.1 Indeed, very few patients of non-European descent were reported amongst 318 cases of Covid19-related perniosis 2 and there was a virtual absence of "Covid toes" among a large population of African-American and Hispanic patients during the Covid19 outbreak in New-York City.3.

Keywords: african ancestry; physiology; representation people; people african; ancestry publications; publications cutaneous

Journal Title: Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
Year Published: 2021

Link to full text (if available)


Share on Social Media:                               Sign Up to like & get
recommendations!

Related content

More Information              News              Social Media              Video              Recommended



                Click one of the above tabs to view related content.