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Kelly D. Werlinger, MD; Ian L. Guevara, MD; Cristina M. González, MA; Edward T. Rincón, PhD; Raul Caetano, MD, MPH, PhD; Robert W. Haley, MD; Amit G. Pandya, MD

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Studies reporting the prevalence of melasma have been performed on patients presenting to dermatology and general medical clinics^1-4; however, prevalence in the general population is unknown. The present article reports a new, validated instrument to determine the presence of melasma by self-diagnosis that was used to determine the prevalence of melasma in premenopausal Latino women in the Dallas–Fort Worth, Tex area.

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The validation study, approved by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center institutional review board, was performed on 30 Latino women with melasma and 30 without melasma recruited from visitors to a general outpatient clinic in a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Dallas, Tex. The patients were examined for the presence or absence of melasma during a blood pressure and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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