{"title":"Representation of Psoriasis on the Web for Patients With Skin of Color.","authors":"Daniel Nguyen, Van Le, Derek Nguyen, Vy Han","doi":"10.2196/69026","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Unlabelled: </strong>This study analyzed over 2000 images of psoriasis across major web-based platforms and found a significant underrepresentation of darker skin tones, highlighting a critical gap in dermatologic representation that may contribute to misdiagnoses and health disparities among patients with skin of color.</p>","PeriodicalId":73553,"journal":{"name":"JMIR dermatology","volume":"8 ","pages":"e69026"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12326156/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"JMIR dermatology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2196/69026","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Medicine","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Unlabelled: This study analyzed over 2000 images of psoriasis across major web-based platforms and found a significant underrepresentation of darker skin tones, highlighting a critical gap in dermatologic representation that may contribute to misdiagnoses and health disparities among patients with skin of color.