‘Better lifestyle can prevent skin diseases’

Improving lifestyle can prevent over 60 percent of skin diseases, speakers said at a seminar in Chattogram yesterday.

Bangladesh Dermatological Society and Department of Dermatology and Venereology of Chattogram Medical College organised it, to mark World Skin Health Day 2019.

Healthcare can prevent 10 percent of skin diseases, genetic factor can prevent 30 percent, and lifestyle management can prevent the other 60 percent, said Prof Chris Griffiths of University of Manchester at the seminar.