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Publication Association between Acne and Body Mass Index: A Hospital Based Cross Sectional Study(Society of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists of Nepal (SODVELON), 2018) Neupane, Saraswoti; Basnet, Binamra; Sharma, Tara DeviAbstract: Introduction: Acne vulgaris is a common and chronic inflammatory skin disease of pilosebaceous unit. Obesity is one of the biggest problems in western life style but nowadays, the problem is increasing even in low and middle-income countries. Body Mass Index (BMI) is used to accurately measure obesity. Objective: To find out the association between different categories of BMI and severity of acne. Materials and methods: This was a cross sectional prospective study conducted in the outpatient department of Gandaki Medical College from January to July, 2017. All the newly diagnosed patients with acne were included in the study. Height and weight of the patients was recorded and BMI was calculated. BMI was categorized as underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese. Type of lesions were noted and severity of acne was graded from 1 to 4. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS version 17.0 for windows. One-way Analysis of Variance between groups (ANOVA) test was applied. P value of less than 0.05 was considered significant. Results: There were altogether 249 patients with acne. Age of the patients ranged from 10 to 44 years with mean age of 20.82 ±5.9 years. Most of the patients were in the age group of 11-20 years. Female: male ratio was 1:1.4. Majority of patients (65.5%) had normal BMI. Most of the patients had Grade 2 acne (52.6%). There was no significant association between the BMI and severity of acne (p=0.129). Conclusion: There was no significant association between BMI and severity of acne. Keywords: Acne vulgaris, comedones, hyperandrogenism, nodules, obesity, overweightPublication Comorbidities in Psoriasis, Cross-Sectional Study in Western Nepal(Society of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists of Nepal (SODVELON), 2022) Basnet, Binamra; Kumar, Ajay; Khadka, ShreyashaAbstract: Introduction: Psoriasis is an immune mediated chronic inflammatory disorder with a worldwide prevalence of 0.5 to 11%. Prevalence of psoriasis in Nepal is around 3%. Psoriasis has many associated systemic diseases and conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, hypothyroidism, of which the commonly associated condition is Metabolic syndrome. The objective of this study is to find the degree of association between psoriasis and other diseases such as hypothyroidism metabolic syndrome etc. Materials and Methods: For this study, total number of fifty-two patients with equal number of age and sex matched controls were recruited with a total duration of study being six months. This is an observational cross sectional prospective study. For the qualitative data, Chi-square test was used and for quantitative data analysis Student’s t test was used. Results: Out of the eight parameters [BMI, smoking, alcohol use, hypothyroidism, hypertension, fasting blood sugar(FBS),fasting triglyceride(TG), fasting high density lipoprotein] considering the p value of <0.05 to be significant, FBS & fasting TG were found to be significant. When the means of FBS and fasting TG were compared between the cases and controls, there was notable relationship between the difference of means and the standard errors of means (p value=0.01 for FBS and p value=0.017 for fasting TG) as calculated by Student’s t Test. Conclusion: In this study, there was a statistical significance between the fasting blood sugar(FBS) levels of the cases and controls (p value=0.01) and also between the fasting triglyceride levels of cases and controls (p value=0.017).