Peran Zn dalam Terjadinya Acne vulgaris
Abstract: Zinc deficiency may
lead to many diseases and symptoms. One of them is Acne vulgaris. Many
researchers said that plasma zinc level patients with severe acne is lower than
normal. The purpose of this research is to measure the plasma zinc level and
the zinc intake daily amount in Acne patients. The aim of this research is to know the role of plasma zinc level in Acne
vulgaris. And also the correlation between plasma zinc level and nutrition
intake. The subjects are 74 people, consist of 42 sample and 32 control,
who came to skin health center in
RSHS, Bandung, skin health center in RS Imanuel, Bandung and students of
Maranatha Christian University who have Acne in their face and also who have
normal skin. All subjects have met the selection criteria. Data is taken by
private interview, private questionnaire and laboratory plasma zinc test. Data
is analysed by Kruskal-Wallis Chi square,
Mann-Whitney test, t-test and Rank Spearman correlation. The result
shows there is a tendency that if Zn plasma level is lower so the Acne
disease is worse, and adversely if Zn
plasma level becomes higher, the disease becomes better. But the Zinc intake
does not show significant correlation
with plasma zinc level, either in the subject group nor in the control normal
group. Conclusion, plasma zinc level has an
important role in Acne vulgaris, but has no correlation with nutrition intake.
Penulis: Meilinah Hidayat,
Iwan Budiman, Dadang Arief Primana
Kode Jurnal: jpkedokterandd080018
