O vitiligo no estado de Sergipe

Abstract

Backgrounds: Vitiligo is the most common hypomelanosis ever reported, but its frequency in the world population is variable in the literature. Data for Brazil are scarce and in Sergipe there are no similar studies. Objectives: To estimate the number of Vitiligo patients assisted by the public reference services in dermatology of Sergipe and to describe the epidemiological profile. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted through analysis of the medical records of pacientes diagnosed with Vitiligo in the HU-UFS and CEMAR. Clinical and epidemiological characteristics were assessed. Results: 94 medical records were evaluated, 83 were from HU-UFS patients and 11 CEMAR patients. The female sex predominated with 65 patients. The mean age was 35.59 years, the mean age of onset of the disease was 25.09 years, the majority had the first symptoms before the age of 20 and the mean in years of disease time was 7.41 years. More than half (59.24%) of the patients came from the capital or from neighboring municipalities. Five types of medications were reported in the medical records and Tacrolimus was the most used (81.81%). Comorbidities, related or not to Vitiligo, were described in 37.83% of the medical records. The non-segmental type occurred in 97.84% of the cases and the segmental type occurred in only 2 patients, as did the generalized subtype and confetti form. The members were affected in 66.66% of the patients, however in individuals <18 years the area most affected was the face. Conclusion: The findings of this study are similar to those obteined by other authors in the literature. The estimated prevalence in this sample was approximately 0.4%.