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Physiologic skin changes during pregnancy: a study of 140 cases
F Muzaffar1, I Hussain, T S Haroon
1Department of Dermatology, King Edward Medical College/Mayo Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.
International Journal of Dermatology
|July 1, 1998
Background:
The endocrine, metabolic, and immunologic changes during pregnancy give rise to a number of physiologic cutaneous changes.
Objective:
We evaluated 140 pregnant women to determine the pattern of pregnancy-induced physiologic skin changes in our community.
Results:
The various changes observed include: increased pigmentation (90.7%), striae (77.1%), edema (48.5), melasma (46.4%), vascular changes (34.2%), and others.
Conclusions:
Pigmentary changes were the most common finding, whereas the incidence of vascular changes was quite low (p < 0.01).