Primary Focal Hyperhidrosis: Disease Characteristics and Functional Impairment

<i>Background: </i>There are few published data on the clinical characteristics of hyperhidrosis. <i>Objective:</i> To describe the functional impairment caused by primary focal hyperhidrosis. <i>Methods:</i> Patients with hyperhidrosis (n = 345) were enrolled at the Department of Dermatology, University of Würzburg. Controls (n = 154) were a convenience sample of subjects without hyperhidrosis. Hyperhidrosis...