Management of triggering factor effects in sensitive skin syndrome with a dermo-cosmetic product.

Objective: Environmental factors are important in the generation or aggravation of sensitive skin syndrome (SSS). Creams can be useful for patients with SSS, particularly when triggering factors cannot be avoided. Several clinical studies have investigated the safety and efficacy of specific creams in patients with SSS, but the majority were assessed with a single type of triggering factor and were non-comparative.

Positive and ecobiological contribution in skin photoprotection of ectoine and mannitol combined in vivo with UV filters.

Background: Chronic exposure to ultraviolet (UV) irradiation causes immunosuppression, photoaging, and carcinogenesis by induction of a cascade of skin damages. Sunscreens currently on the market are not absorbing UV rays uniformly throughout the full UV range, high sun protection factor (SPF) sunscreens absorb most of UVB rays but are less effective in absorbing the UVA part of the spectrum. In the context, one approach could consist of preserving the skin natural resources and mechanisms, which is the foundation of the ecobiological approach, by combing UV filters and antioxidants to enhance their photoprotective effect.

Evaluating the respective weights of some facial signs on the perceived radiance/glow in differently aged women of six countries.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of Facial radiance or Glow on the perception of age (PA) and to assess which facial signs most influence PA.

Material And Methods: The faces of 1058 differently aged women (18-80 years) of six different ethnicities/countries (China, Japan, Korea, India, South Africa, and Brazil) were photographed under standard conditions. These allowed to focus on 20 different facial signs that were further graded by experts, using referential Atlases dedicated to facial aging.

Skin moisture assessment using Hydration Sensor Patches coupled with smartphones via Near Field Communication (NFC). A pilot study with the first generation of patches that allow self-recordings of skin hydration.

Objectives: To evaluate the potency of a new skin hydration sensor patch in the fast self-recording of skin hydration.

Material And Methods: The Skin Hydration Sensor Patch (SHSP) turns the user's smartphone into a wireless skin moisture measuring device. The SHSP combines a capacitive measurement unit and Near Field Communication technology (NFC) for transmitting data and energy.

Comparing the self-perceived effects of a facial anti-aging product to those automatically detected from selfie images of Chinese women of different ages and cities.

Objective: To assess the agreement, after 1-month application of a popular and efficient anti-aging product, between self-perceived facial signs of aging and those detected and graded by an automatic A.I-based system, using smartphones' selfie images.

Material And Methods: Of 1065 Chinese women, aged 18-60 years, from eight different Chinese cities were recruited.

The respective weights of facial signs on the perception of age and a tired-look among differently aged Korean men.

Objectives: To determine the respective weights of certain facial signs on the assessment of the perceived age and a tired-look on Korean men of different ages.

Material And Methods: Photographs were taken of the faces of 101 Korean men (20-80 years) under standardized conditions. These photographs allowed to define 16 signs, which were then graded by 15 experts/dermatologists, using standardized scales provided by a referential Skin Aging Atlas.

Japanese experiment of a complete and objective automatic grading system of facial signs from selfie pictures: Validation with dermatologists and characterization of changes due to age and sun exposures.

Objective: To evaluate the capacity of the automatic detection system to accurately grade, from smartphones' selfie pictures, the severity of ten facial signs in Japanese women and their changes due to age and sun exposures.

Methods: A three-step approach was conducted, based on self-taken selfie images. At first, to check on 310 Japanese women (18-69 years) enrolled in the northerner Hokkaido area (latitude 43.

Changes in facial signs due to age and their respective weights on the perception of age and skin plumpness among differently aged Korean women.

Objective: To determine the respective weights of certain facial signs on the assessment of perceived age and plumpness on Korean women of different ages.

Material And Methods: Photographs were taken of the faces of 112 Korean women of different ages (18-80 years) under standardized conditions. These photographs allowed to focus and define 19 facial signs, which were then graded by 15 experts and dermatologists, using standardized scales provided by a reference Skin Aging Atlas.

Evaluating the respective weights of some facial signs on perceived ages in differently aged women of five ethnic origins.

Background: New gratification assessments, after skincare routines or makeup products, could benefit from innovative methods that could predict the culturally based perceptions of age.

Aims: To determine the facial signs that most influence the perception of age in women of five different ethnic ancestries, assessed by the same ethnical naïve panel.

Patients/methods: The faces of 1351 women, differently aged (18-80 years), from five countries (China, France, India, Japan, and South Africa) were photographed under the same standardized conditions in the five countries.

Changes in facial signs due to age and their respective weights on the perception of age, on a tired-look or a healthy glow among differently aged Chinese men.

Objective: To determine the respective weights of certain facial signs on the assessment of perceived age, tired-look and healthy glow on Chinese men of different ages.

Material And Methods: Photographs were taken of the faces of 420 Chinese men of different ages, under standardized conditions. These photographs allowed to focus and define 15 facial signs, which were then graded by 15 experts and dermatologists, using standardized scales provided by a reference Skin Aging Atlas.

Gender-related differences in the facial aging of Chinese subjects and their relations with perceived ages.

Objective: To describe the progressing severity of facial signs and their links with perceived age, of Chinese men and women.

Methods: Full-face photographs of 438 Chinese subjects (220 men, 218 women) differently aged (18-80 years) were taken. These photographs afforded a zoom on 5 facial signs of aging: forehead and crow's feet wrinkles, nasolabial fold, marionette lines and ptosis of the lower face.

Gender-related differences in the facial aging of Caucasian French subjects and their relations with perceived ages and tiredness.

Objectives: (a) To assess and compare the changes in five facial signs with age between genders of Caucasian subjects and (b) to evaluate their links with perceived ages and tiredness.

Material And Methods: Once zoomed from standardized digital photographs, five facial signs of 518 Caucasian French subjects of both genders and different ages (18-69 years) were graded by 15 experts, using a referential Skin Aging Atlas. A large naïve panel of 1000 French subjects (500 men and 500 women) was asked to attribute a perceived age and a degree of tiredness to 200 subjects (among the 518).

Assessing changes in some facial signs of fatigue in Chinese women, induced by a single working day.

Background: The impacts of physical fatigue upon some facial signs, induced by a whole day work, have been previously described on Caucasian women. This study aimed at assessing those possibly experienced by Chinese working women under comparable conditions.

Material And Methods: Standard photographs of 60 Chinese women working in the same company (aged 20-40 years) were taken at three occasions during their working day (just before, at 4 and 8 h).

Combined first-trimester Down syndrome screening in HIV-infected women.

Objective: To determine if human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection or antiretroviral therapy interferes with maternal levels of free human β-chorionic gonadotrophin (hCGβ) and pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) and whether any such influence alters first-trimester Down syndrome (DS) screening in HIV-infected women.

Study Design: We performed a multicenter 1:2 matched case-control study comparing 84 HIV-infected women with singleton pregnancies with controls randomly selected among uninfected women, delivered and screened in the same center and matched for maternal age, geographical origin and fetal sex.

Results: Groups did not differ significantly in screening results, although case women showed a slightly lower median free hCGβ multiple of the median (MoM) (1.

French validation of a new version of the driver behavior questionnaire (DBQ) for drivers of all ages and level of experiences.

The purpose of this study was to validate a new version of the Driver Behavior Questionnaire (DBQ) on a sample of French drivers in order to gain a better understanding of different driver behaviors, by differentiating two types of violations (aggressive and ordinary), three types of errors (dangerous, inattention and inexperience) and by taking positive behaviors into account. 525 drivers (205 men and 320 women), between 18 and 79 years of age, filled in a questionnaire on line including the 41 items in the new version of the DBQ and information relative to their mobility and their accident history. Exploratory factor analysis confirmed a six-factor structure: "dangerous errors", "inattention errors", "inexperience errors", "ordinary violations", "aggressive violations" and "positive behaviors".

Social representations, correspondence factor analysis and characterization questionnaire: a methodological contribution.

The characterization questionnaire is inspired by Q-sort methodologies (i.e. qualitative sorting).

[Diagnosis of thoracic outlet syndrome. Value of angiography in the sitting position].

Purpose: Thoracic outlet syndrome includes arterial, venous or neurological symptoms. Frequently difficult to diagnose clinically, confirmatory imaging studies are usually required. The purpose of this study is to review the diagnostic work-up during management of patients with thoracic outlet syndrome and demonstrate the value of angiography in the sitting position.

[Comparison of the individual deprivation index of the French Health Examination Centres and the administrative definition of deprivation].

In French Health Examination Centres, populations in deprived situation were usually defined by administrative criteria The aim of the study was to investigate whether EPICES, a new individual index of deprivation, was more strongly related to health status than an administrative classification. The EPICES score was calculated on the basis of 11 weighted questions related to material and social deprivation. Participants were 197, 389 men and women, aged over 18, encountered in 2002 in French Health Examination Centres.

Stability study of cloxacillin in an oily suspension, by high performance liquid chromatography.

A high performance liquid chromatography method, using spectrophotometric detection (254 nm) has been developed for the analysis of cloxacillin in an oily suspension. Analysis was performed by isocratic elution with 0.02M potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution, methanol, 50/50 (V/V).