Aetiology of occupational hand eczema in hairdressers: Tackling the complexity of exposure combinations to identify patterns associated with increased risk of hand eczema.

Although occupational exposures in hairdressing are complex, meaningful patterns associated with a wide range of OHE risk can be identified by LCA. The increase of OHE risk seems predominantly to be due to poor compliance with protective gloves. LCA could be applied to further fields of complex (skin) exposures.