iarjimphIARJIMPHIARJIMPH2709-331Xhttps://doi.org/10.47310/iarjimph.2021.v02i02.036Urticaria Activity Score and Involvements of Body Sites among Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria Patients in Tertiary Care HospitalShailjaChauhanVikantVermaBackground: Measurement of disease activity defined by Urticaria Activity Score (UAS) guides treatment of chronic spontaneous urticaria. Therefore present study was done to evaluate theUrticaria activity score and involvements of body sites among patients with Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria (CSU). Methods: All 100 consecutive patients of chronic urticaria aged 18 years and above attending the outpatient Dermatology, Venereology & 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. Mean urticaria activity scores (UAS) among patients was5.30 ±1.374. Overall, 72 patients had high urticaria activity score of 5-7 and 28 patients had urticaria activity score of 2-4. All patients had 2 or more body sites involved. The number of sites involved varied from 2 to 7 among patients with mean involvement of 3.9±1.36 sites. 77 patients had 2-4 body sites affected while 23 patients had 5-7 sites involved. Limbs (96) and trunk (97) were the most frequent affected sites followed by face (64), scalp (62), palms & soles (53) while Mouth & Tongue (5) were the least affected sites. 37 patients had urticaria associated episodic angioedema. The frequency of angioedema varied between 1 and 50 (mean±SD = 1.54±1.01) episodes per year. Up to 10 episodes of angioedema in a year were reported by 32 patients and comprised the majority. Conclusions: Our study concluded that most of the patients of CSU had high urticaria activity score of 5-7. All patients had 2 or more body sites involved and Limbs and trunk were the most frequent affected sites. Around one third patients had urticaria associated episodic angioedema.