Assessment of skin microcirculation in different morphotypes of face and neck aging

Annotation. Objective – to establish the relationship between facial aging morphotypes and skin microcirculation indicators, which may form the basis for improving diagnostic and treatment methods for age-related changes. The study included 52 female patients aged 50 and older. Among the examined patients, the following facial aging morphotypes were identified: gravitational (28.8%), fine-wrinkled (15.4%), deformational (34.6%), and combined (21.2%). The microcirculation of the face was studied by the method of laser Doppler flowmetry. To obtain statistical data, we calculated the average arithmetic value (M), the probability of differences in the results of the study (p) relative to the indicators of different groups. The results were considered statistical when the probability ratio was less than or equal to 0.05. The microcirculation index in patients with the fine-wrinkled morphotype was significantly lower than that in individuals with the deformational morphotype by 1.5 times (p=0.005). There was also a significant difference between the microcirculation index in patients with gravitational and fine-wrinkled morphotypes (p=0.03), gravitational and combined morphotypes (p=0.04), and fine-wrinkled and combined morphotypes (p=0.002). So the best facial microcirculation indicators were found in patients with deformational and combined aging morphotypes, while the lowest were observed in patients with gravitational and fine-wrinkled morphotypes. Future research should focus on studying the relationship between microcirculatory disorders and morphological changes in the skin across different aging types, which may contribute to the development of new methods for preventing and treating age-related skin changes.