iarjimphIARJIMPHIARJIMPH2709-331Xhttps://doi.org/10.47310/iarjimph.2021.v02i02.035Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria Patients in Tertiary Care HospitalShailjaChauhanVikantVermaBackground: Urticaria is a common cause for consultation in general and specialized medical practices. There is scarce information on the Socio-demographic characteristics of patients suffering from Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria in Himachal Pradesh. Therefore present study was done to evaluate the socio-demographic characteristics of patients with Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria. Methods: All 100 consecutive patients of chronic urticaria aged 18 years and above attending the outpatient Dermatology, Venereology and Leprosy clinic of Dr. R. P. Govt. Medical College, Kangra (Tanda), Himachal Pradesh between April 2016 and March 2017. Information on age, gender, symptom duration, previous medical history etc. was collected. Results: The study comprised 100 consecutive patients with chronic Spontaneousurticaria and had 25 males and 75 females (M: F = 1:3) aged between 18 and 69 (mean±SD = 36.12±10.88) years. Thirty seven (37%) patients were aged less than or equal to 30 years and 9 patients were more than 50 years of age. The majority, 68 (68%) patients were aged between 18-40 years followed by 23 (23%) patients in the age group of 41-50 years. The age at onset of urticaria ranged from 3 to 69 (mean±SD = 33.53±11.36) years and 84 (84%) patients started having urticaria at 21–50 years of age.The duration of urticaria varied between 6 weeks and 240 (median ± IQR 6±9) months. The majority, 85 (85%) patients had urticaria for less than 12 months. 31(31%) patients in had past episodes of urticaria. Frequency of episodes per year varied between 10 -120 among patients. Conclusions: It was possible to conclude that chronic urticaria-angioedema occurred mainly among middle-aged women. It is a long-term disease as the average duration of the disease was long about 6 to 9 months and many patients had past episodes of urticaria.