Table 4 Relationship of Malassezia with IFSAT scores, severe facial skin problems, forehead erythema, forehead papules, and forehead dryness (n = 96).
Total (n = 96) | IFSAT† scores (n = 96) | Severe facial skin problems‡ (n = 55, 57.3%) | Forehead erythema (n = 16, 16.7%) | Forehead papules (n = 46, 47.9%) | Forehead dryness (n = 7, 7.3%) | |||||||||||
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Median (IQR§) | ρ | p-value|| | median (IQR§) | p-value||¶ | median (IQR§) | p-value||¶ | median (IQR§) | p-value||¶ | median (IQR§) | p-value||¶ | ||||||
Malassezia genus (%)†† | ||||||||||||||||
Total Malassezia | 37.27 | (4.49–61.17) | 0.04 | 0.731 | 40.25 | (6.29–64.12) | 0.584 | 41.55 | (8.13–77.97) | 0.323 | 46.96 | (9.71–64.85) | 0.233 | 2.79 | (0.73–34.61) | 0.072 |
Malassezia species (%)†† | ||||||||||||||||
M. globosa | 8.15 | (0.79–22.24) | 0.10 | 0.323 | 9.01 | (2.04–24.50) | 0.314 | 16.64 | (2.89–30.33) | 0.205 | 9.43 | (1.87–21.97) | 0.208 | 2.04 | (0.14–6.43) | 0.089 |
M. restricta | 3.37 | (0.63–15.91) | 0.06 | 0.591 | 4.69 | (0.85–17.14) | 0.223 | 3.35 | (1.14–12.20) | 0.856 | 5.37 | (1.04–19.72) | 0.141 | 0.52 | (0.16–6.47) | 0.125 |
M. sympodialis | 0.46 | (0.03–3.45) | − 0.07 | 0.468 | 0.58 | (0.01–3.11) | 0.619 | 0.70 | (0.04–7.50) | 0.619 | 0.35 | (0.02–3.72) | 0.572 | 0.23 | (0.03–0.80) | 0.525 |
M. arunalokei | 0.52 | (0.06–2.11) | 0.01 | 0.930 | 0.61 | (0.10–2.19) | 0.388 | 0.53 | (0.12–3.86) | 0.558 | 0.97 | (0.21–2.60) | 0.056 | 0.02 | (0.01–0.14) | 0.006 |
M. obtusa | 0.05 | (0.00–0.39) | 0.07 | 0.518 | 0.06 | (0.00–0.42) | 0.493 | 0.06 | (0.00–0.27) | 0.823 | 0.05 | (0.01–0.35) | 0.702 | 0.02 | (0.00–19.15) | 0.781 |
M. furfur | 0.02 | (0.00–0.27) | 0.07 | 0.522 | 0.04 | (0.00–0.31) | 0.231 | 0.02 | (0.00–0.35) | 0.939 | 0.06 | (0.00–0.33) | 0.119 | 0.00 | (0.00–0.18) | 0.336 |
