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Hypertension: a systemic key to understanding local keloid severity.
Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society - 1 Jan 2000
Arima Juri, Huang Chenyu, Rosner Bernard, Akaishi Satoshi, Ogawa Rei
Abstract excerpt
This study assessed whether hypertension, a circulating factor, influences local keloid severity. This retrospective cross-sectional study involved 304 consecutive patients (13-78 years old) with keloids who were surgically treated in our hospital between January 2011 and August 2013. Their blood pressure (BP), age and gender, and the size and number of their keloids before surgery were recorded. Ordinal logistic...
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