A study of epidemiology, clinical features and co-morbidities in psoriasis

 

Nachiket Palaskar¹, Pralhad R Rathod^2*

 

Abstract              Background: Psoriasis is a papulosquamous disease with variable morphology, distribution, severity, and course. Psoriasis affects quality of life. Aim and Objective: To study the epidemiology, clinical features and co morbidities in patients of psoriasis. Methodology: Total 110 patients were studied at a tertiary care center. Data collection was done with pre tested questionnaire. Data collection included sociodemographic data, clinical features and associated comorbidities. Results and Discussion: patients were male (61.82%) and 38.18% were females. The most common type of psoriasis in our study was plaque psoriasis 99(90%). Nail discoloration was seen in 29.09% patients. Stress was most common aggravating factors. Most common co morbidity associated with psoriasis was hypertension(27.5%) followed by obesity (25%) and diabetes meillitus (18.20%).

Key Words: psoriasis.