Table 3.

Comparison of characteristics in various studies

Various parameters	Present study	Panda et al. (2017)[1]	Sharquie et al. (2015)[4]	Verma et al. (2016)[5]
Sample size	40 cases, 40 controls	123 cases, 123 controls	27 cases, 27 controls	102 cases
Mean age (years)	38.5 (M), 34 (F)	38.83	39	37.57 (M),31 (F)
Duration	1-20 years (4)	-	1 years-8 years (3.4)	7 months-8 years
Mean age of onset	32.98	30.93		-
M:F	2.08:1	4.35:1	27:1	2.9:1
History of being exposed to sunlight >2 h/day (%)	27.50	74.80		21.50
Most common pattern	Classical	Forehead and temporal	Forehead	Classical
M/C color	Dark brown	Brown-black	-	-
AN of other sites (%)	92.50	81.30		86.27
BMI (%) [>25]	90.00	22.00	-	87 (M), 100 (F)
WC (%)	95.00	-	83.30	85.29
WHR (%)	97.50	40.00	53.50	100
Hypertension (%)	25	6.50		49.10
Dysglycemia (%)	32.50	54.47	-	-
Hypertriglyceridemia (%)	37.50	39.20	-	50.98
Insulin resistance (%)	55.00	62.60	-	82.34