Health outcome · disease
Skin diseases
Also: skin disease, dermatosis, dermatoses, skin conditions, skin disorders
The group of conditions affecting the skin that indoor environment research treats together — eczema and dermatitis, urticaria, dryness and irritation. The group exists because studies often record a category rather than a diagnosis.
Not reviewed by a clinician. This entry describes a disease or a symptom. We are introducing clinical review for pages of this kind; until that reviewer is in place, this page has been written and checked by the Coridum team but not reviewed by a clinician. It is general information and not medical advice. How this library is built is described in How we build this library.
Why it matters indoors
This page exists for a practical reason: a questionnaire or a registry often reports skin complaints as one category, and a result about that category should not be filed as though it were about a named condition.
What the conditions share is the barrier. The outer layer of skin holds water in and keeps irritants out, and indoor air acts on it constantly — dry heated air draws moisture out, detergents and solvents strip the lipids that hold it together, and a compromised barrier then lets through substances that intact skin would have excluded. This is why complaints rise in the heating season across the whole group, whatever the underlying diagnosis.
Where a study names a condition, Coridum uses the narrower slug: dermatitis, atopic dermatitis or psoriasis. This slug carries results that were reported for skin complaints as a whole.
Indoor factors with evidence
| Factor | Effect | Population | Study design | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Particulate matter (PM₂.₅ and PM₁₀) | difference 1.01 (0.08–2.05) per 10 % | — | systematic review and meta-analysis | F-0064 Ngoc et al. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Human Skin Diseases D… (2017) | machine |
| Particulate matter (PM₂.₅ and PM₁₀) | difference 1.60 (0.45–2.82) per 10 % | — | systematic review and meta-analysis | F-0065 Ngoc et al. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Human Skin Diseases D… (2017) | machine |
Each row is one Finding — a sentence as printed in one study, recorded with its page in the Coridum Knowledge Base. Follow the Finding number for the exact wording and the citation. Checked says who verified the row: machine means every automatic check passed and the surrounding text was read; person means someone read the sentence in the document. Rows are re-checked by a person over time. The studies are curated in the Coridum Knowledge Base; the reading of them together is a Claim, shown separately.
Identifiers
- MeSH
- D012871
Cite this page
Coridum Research. Skin diseases. Coridum Knowledge G-0171, 16 September 2026. https://coridum.com/k/G-0171/