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Vitiligo Registry for Adults and Children in the UK
Official title: Vitiligo Registry for Adults and Children in the UK (VIRTUAL-UK)
Status: Opening soon
Description:
Vitiligo is the most common depigmentation disorder affecting around 1% of the population worldwide. Fifty two percent of patients develop vitiligo before the age of 20 and around 80% develop vitiligo before the age of 30 years old.1 Vitiligo often presents in childhood and tends to be a lifelong disease, requiring prolonged courses of phototherapy. Currently no national or international registry for patients with vitiligo exists. Individual dermatologists maintain a database of such patients, however no coordinated efforts have been made to combine these individual registries into a broader national registry. Finally, recently published British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) guideline for the management of vitiligo, recommended the development of a national registry for people with vitiligo undergoing systemic or light therapy to identify outcomes and safety.
Who can take part: 30 participants planned.
Enrollment status: Opening soon. The study started 15 December 2026 and is expected to finish 01 February 2030.
Contact: Viktoria Eleftheriadou.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT06218082 (https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06218082).
Start date: December 15, 2026
Completion date: February 01, 2030
Organizer: The Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust
Contact: Viktoria Eleftheriadou
Tel.: 01902307999
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FAQOther Questions
- Can a gluten-free diet help with vitiligo?
It's very unlikely. We have specifically looked into claims that gluten-free diet may ease symptoms of vitiligo, or completely reverse it, and found no firm scientific evidence ...
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A recent study out of India compared the two head-to-head. Both tools correlated fairly well with clinical criteria, but dermoscopy had a slight edge: Wood’s lamp: sensitivity 7...
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