Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study subjects.
| Number of patients (M:F) | 48 (22:3) |
| Mean age in years (SD, range) | 29.0 (10.9, 16–50) |
| Gender | |
| Male | 22 (45.8) |
| Female | 26 (54.2) |
| Education N (%) | |
| Illiterate | 3 (6.2) |
| Secondary | 21 (43.8) |
| University | 20 (41.7) |
| Postgraduate | 4 (8.3) |
| Social status N (%) | |
| Single | 21 (43.7) |
| Married | 24 (50.0) |
| Divorced/Widowed | 3 (6.3) |
| Occupation N (%) | |
| Manual work | 3 (6.3) |
| Clerical | 12 (25.0) |
| Business | 5 (10.4) |
| Professional | 2 (4.2) |
| Student | 16 (33.3) |
| Housewife | 10 (20.8) |
| Fitz-Patrick skin type | |
| III | 16 (33.3) |
| IV | 21 (43.8) |
| V | 11 (22.9) |
| Mean duration of disease in years (SD, range) | 7.8 (4.3, 1–23) |
| Mean age of onset in years (SD, range) | 22.4 (9.7, 3–48) |
| Distribution of lesions (N=105) (%) | |
| Face | 22 (20.9) |
| Neck | 9 (8.6) |
| Trunk | 15 (14.3) |
| Upper limb | 30 (28.6) |
| Lower limb | 29 (27.6) |