ABSTRACT

Objective

Psoriazis is one of the most common diseases seen at dermatology outpatient clinics. In this study, we aimed to investigate the clinical and sociodemographic characteristics of psoriazis patients.

Methods:

248 patients who applied to our outpatient clinic and were newly diagnosed or under follow-up for psoriazis clinically and/or histopathologically, between the period of January 2011 - February 2012 were included in our study. Clinical and demographic data of the patients were recorded.

Results:

Patients with psoriazis constituted 1.38% of all the patients admitted to our department. 33.7% of the patients had a family history. The rate of smoking in patients with psoriazis was found to be in an average of 28.2%. 4.8% of the patients have been using alcohol. The most common clinical types were plaque. 43.5% of the patients had nail involvement. Joint involvement was found to be in 14.5% of the patients. 69.3% of patients with psoriazis had pruritus. The most frequent accompanying disease was hypertension (12%).

Conclusion

In general terms, our results were highly similar with the available data of national and foreign studies. It is concluded that similar studies should be done in all regions of Turkey in order to detect the national data of all psoriazis patients in our country.