Importance Understanding the major health problems in the United States and how they are
changing over time is critical for informing national health policy. Objectives To measure the …

Importance Understanding skin cancer incidence is critical for planning prevention and
treatment strategies and allocating medical resources. However, owing to lack of national …

Because death from nonmelanoma skin cancer is uncommon, quantification of its morbidity
is particularly important. Although its incidence is increasing rapidly, the most recent …

The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2010 estimated the GBD attributable to 15 categories
of skin disease from 1990 to 2010 for 187 countries. For each of the following diseases…

Objectives To estimate the incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in the US
population in 2006 and secondarily to indicate trends in numbers of procedures for skin cancer …

Skin disease is one of the top 15 groups of medical conditions for which prevalence and
health care spending increased the most between 1987 and 2000, with approximately 1 of 3 …

The steroid hormone vitamin D is required for normal calcium and phosphorus metabolism
and is thus an important contributor to musculoskeletal health. Recent data have linked low …

… Dr Weinstock was supported by grants CSP 402 from the Department of Veterans Affairs,
Office of Research and Development, Washington, DC, and CA 106592 from the National …

BACKGROUND: Actinic keratoses (AKs) are established as direct precursors of squamous
cell carcinoma (SCC), but there is significant controversy regarding the rate at which AKs …

Since the publication of the last US national burden of skin disease report in 2006, there have
been substantial changes in the practice of dermatology and the US health care system. …