Vitiligo: Epidemiology and clinical pattern at King Khalid University Hospital.

@article{Jarallah1993VitiligoEA,
  title={Vitiligo: Epidemiology and clinical pattern at King Khalid University Hospital.},
  author={Jamal S. Jarallah and Omar Abdulaziz Al-Sheikh and Marwa M. El-Shabrawy and M A Al-Wakeel},
  journal={Annals of Saudi medicine},
  year={1993},
  volume={13 4},
  pages={
          332-4
        }
}
The incidence of vitiligo at King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was 2.5% for the period from 1985-1990. The majority (96.1%) were Saudis. Approximately 64% were below the age of 30 years and the average was 25.6+/- SD 13.7 years. Fifty-six percent of the patients were males and 43% were females. More than half of the patients had the lesions for a period between one and nine years and 17.17% had them for more than 15 years. Only 12% had a positive family history of… 
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