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Background: A large discrepancy between physician‐diagnosed and self‐reported Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) exists. Knowledge regarding incidence and remission rates of self‐reported HS is missing, but may help bridge the gap in understanding between these two phenotypes. Objectives: To determine the incidence and remission rates of self‐reported HS, and to what degree these are affected by sex, smoking and BMI. Methods: A prospective cohort of 23 930 Danish blood donors. Information on self‐reported HS, symptom‐localisation, sex, age, BMI and smoking status was collected at baseline and study termination. Self‐reported HS fulfilled clinical obligatory diagnostic criteria. Cox proportional hazards regression analyses were conducted for both incidence and remission rates providing a hazard ratio (HR) of risk for each variable in the regression. Results: Incidence rate of self‐reported HS was 10.8/1000 person‐years (95% confidence interval (CI): 9.9–11.7), decreasing as a function of numbers of areas affected. Female BMI points above 25 (HR = 1.11, 95% CI: 1.09–1.13), male BMI points above 25 (HR = 1.07, 95% CI: 1.04–1.11), active smoking (HR = 1.72, 95% CI: 1.15–2.57), male sex (HR = 0.55, 95% CI: 0.45–0.67) and years of age above 25 (HR = 0.97, 95% CI: 0.96–0.97) were all statistically associated with the development of self‐reported HS. Remission rate of self‐reported HS was 256.7/1000 person‐years (95% CI: 223.9–292.6), decreasing as a function of numbers of affected areas. Symptoms in ≥3 areas (HR = 0.54, 95% CI: 0.34–0.85), active smoking (HR = 0.49, 95% CI: 0.32–0.76) and female weight loss (every percentage drop in BMI: HR = 1.07, 95% CI: 1.05–1.11) all significantly affected the remission rate. Conclusions: Both incidence and remission rates of self‐reported HS are high, indicating that many with self‐reported HS are unlikely to be diagnosed, as they to a higher degree experience mild transient HS symptoms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: A large discrepancy between physician-diagnosed and self-reported Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) exists. Knowledge regarding incidence and remission rates of self-reported HS is missing, but may help bridge the gap in understanding between these two phenotypes., Objectives: To determine the incidence and remission rates of self-reported HS, and to what degree these are affected by sex, smoking and BMI., Methods: A prospective cohort of 23 930 Danish blood donors. Information on self-reported HS, symptom-localisation, sex, age, BMI and smoking status was collected at baseline and study termination. Self-reported HS fulfilled clinical obligatory diagnostic criteria. Cox proportional hazards regression analyses were conducted for both incidence and remission rates providing a hazard ratio (HR) of risk for each variable in the regression., Results: Incidence rate of self-reported HS was 10.8/1000 person-years (95% confidence interval (CI): 9.9-11.7), decreasing as a function of numbers of areas affected. Female BMI points above 25 (HR = 1.11, 95% CI: 1.09-1.13), male BMI points above 25 (HR = 1.07, 95% CI: 1.04-1.11), active smoking (HR = 1.72, 95% CI: 1.15-2.57), male sex (HR = 0.55, 95% CI: 0.45-0.67) and years of age above 25 (HR = 0.97, 95% CI: 0.96-0.97) were all statistically associated with the development of self-reported HS. Remission rate of self-reported HS was 256.7/1000 person-years (95% CI: 223.9-292.6), decreasing as a function of numbers of affected areas. Symptoms in ≥3 areas (HR = 0.54, 95% CI: 0.34-0.85), active smoking (HR = 0.49, 95% CI: 0.32-0.76) and female weight loss (every percentage drop in BMI: HR = 1.07, 95% CI: 1.05-1.11) all significantly affected the remission rate., Conclusions: Both incidence and remission rates of self-reported HS are high, indicating that many with self-reported HS are unlikely to be diagnosed, as they to a higher degree experience mild transient HS symptoms., (© 2021 European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology.)

Common carp juveniles were fed for 9 weeks one of the eight semipurified diets containing graded levels of magnesium, 0.08, 0.6, 1.1, 3, 2 g Mg kg(-1) and 25 or 44% protein.Fish growth and feed utilization were significantly affected by both Mg and protein levels in the diets. Significant interaction between these two studied variables existed in relation to the fish performance as well as to mean deposition rate of several minerals in common carp body. The fish fed diets containing 0.08 g Mg kg(-1) had reduced growth and developed deficiency signs such as muscle flaccidity and skin hemorrhages.Results indicated that a minimum Mg level of 0.6 g Mg kg(-1) was required to elevate plasma and bone magnesium content and to reduce the whole body Ca concentration (hypercalcinosis symptom). Further increase of dietary Mg up to 3.2 g Mg kg(-1) improved growth rate of fish insignificantly, but the deposition rate of dietary Mg fell to as low as 7.4 and 10.7 percent in low- and high-protein diet fed fish, respectively. In Mg-deficient fish, considerable amount of magnesium was absorbed via extra-oral routes, however, this way of the covering magnesium need becomes insufficient in fast growing fish.