Özet:

Chronic urticaria (CU) is characterized by recurrent itchy blisters, angioedema, or both for more than six weeks. We evaluated patients' clinical and demographic characteristics, laboratory results, and factors affecting the disease's duration followed up with the diagnosis of chronic urticaria in our clinic. In our study 101 patients who applied to our outpatient clinic between March and December 2020 were included in the study. Demographic features, comorbid illness of patients, skin prick test results, phadiatop, Total IgE, anti-TPO, vitamin B12, vitamin D, ferritin, complete blood count, autologous serum skin test, urticaria activity score over seven days (UAS7) were examined from hospital records retrospectively. Correlations between variables and their effects on the duration of the disease were statistically investigated. It was observed that the duration of the disease was longer in chronic urticaria patients with anti-TPO positivity (p=0.019). As a result of the multiple regression analysis, it had been determined that the UAS7 value had 2,989 folding effects on the duration of the disease. A positive correlation between the duration of the disease and the UAS7 (r=0,277; p=0,005) was determined. The patients in the study defined as a longer disease duration in the patients with angioedema (p=0,005), dermatographism (p=0,012) and gender of female (p=0,031) Anti-TPO positivity, concomitant angioedema, dermatographism, and higher UAS7 scores predicts that their chronic urticaria will last longer.

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