Metabolic syndrome in vitiligo patients among a semi-urban Maharashtrian population: A case control study.

Aim: To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its correlation with the severity and duration of vitiligo.

Methods: One hundred vitiligo patients and 100 age-and-sex matched controls were included, whose waist circumference and blood pressure were measured; fasting serum cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose levels quantified; disease severity assessed and metabolic syndrome defined by National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) criteria.

Results: Metabolic syndrome (24%:12%), hypertriglyceridemia (41%:24%), impaired glucose tolerance (25%:16%) [P<0.

Prevalence of metabolic syndrome as per the NCEP and IDF definitions vis-a-vis severity and duration of psoriasis in a semi-urban Maharashtrian population: A case control study.

Background: The inexorable inflammation in patients of psoriasis predisposes to various disorders, notably, a cluster of cardiovascular and metabolic abnormalities christened 'metabolic syndrome'.

Aim: To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its correlation with the severity and duration of psoriasis.

Methods: One hundred psoriasis patients and 100 age-and-sex matched controls were included, whose waist circumference and blood pressure were measured; fasting serum cholesterol, triglycerides and glucose levels quantified; disease severity assessed and metabolic syndrome defined separately by two globally accepted criteria.