The stress severe acne trigger

Acne is often trigger stress. Or it could be stress triggers acne?
Every person must have a problem with acne. Besides often come from anywhere, acne can also make a person become less confident. No surprising, if the acne in the eyes of some people, especially teenagers considered a stressor.
The research, published BMC Public Health, acne is not only consistent with depression or anxiety, but the mental stress suffered by teenagers also aggravates acne conditions.
Study conducted in Oslo in 2004 involving teens (ages 18-19) as participants. The researchers invited all the students who have completed high school to take part.
Ninety percent of the 3659 students who were invited to participate together with 467 other students who have not completed (ages 18-19).
The teenagers were asked to complete questionnaires about the severity of acne and anxiety and depression they experience, they yang food consumption and whether they smoked and drank alcohol. In addition is the researchers separately also collected socioeconomic data from the central teens statistics Norway.
After investigation, the child's mental stress is associated with the number of acne they suffer. This stress is factor, according to researchers, apart from other factors such as diet or lifestyle. Approximately 19% of children who reported symptoms ofanxiety and depression, acne, compared to only 12% of children who are not having a nervous breakdown.
In boys, those who suffer from depression and anxiety 68% risk of having acne is greater than their peers who feel more cheerful. Was among the girls, those who experience mental distress risk is twice as large have acne than their peers who did not.
According to Jon Halvorsen, Dermatologist and head of research at the University of Oslo in Norway, this study is the first study to find the direction of the relationship between mood and acne.
"The worse the symptoms of mental illness, the acne condition is getting worse," Halvorsen explained, as quoted by Reuters.
Does a mental health disorder worsen the acne condition?
According to researchers, stress will stimulate the growth of nerve fibers around sebaceous glands.
This will trigger increased reproduction sebum, the fatty substance with damaged cells and skin cells die to form black spots and acne on the face or body.