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A Retrospective, Cross-sectional Hospital-based Study to Determine the Epidemiological, Clinical and Comorbidity Characteristics in Older Adults with Psoriasis
Global Journal of Epidemiology and Infectious Disease
| Vol 2, Issue 1
Table 2. Clinical characteristicsof geriatric psoriasis.
| Sr. No. | Characteristics | Elderly (60-75 years) | Ultraelderly (> 75 years | P value (p < 0.05) | ᵪ2 | Grand total | |||||
| Freq | % | Freq | % | Freq | % | ||||||
| 1 | Morphological type of psoriasis | Chronic plaque psoriasis | Nummular plaque (1-5 cm) | 127 | 90.1 | 20 | 90.9 | 0.95 | 0.003 | 147 | 90.2 |
| Large plaque (> 5 cm) | 9 | 6.4 | 2 | 9.1 | 0.48 | 0.48 | 11 | 6.8 | |||
| Guttate (<1 cm) | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.02 | 4.96 | 7 | 4.3 | |||
| Pustular | 2 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | 0.23 | 1.42 | 2 | 1.2 | |||
| Erythrodermic | 1 | 0.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.39 | 0.71 | 1 | 0.6 | |||
| Others | 4 | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | 0.09 | 2.84 | 4 | 2.45 | |||
| 2 | Nails involved | Yes | 53 | 37.6 | 11 | 50 | 0.07 | 3.12 | 64 | 39.3 | |
| No | 88 | 62.4 | 11 | 50 | 99 | 60.7 | |||||
| 3 | Psoriatic arthritis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||