Sir, Numerous earlier studies had presented the correlation between clinical and demographic parameters and stigmatization; however, their samples were (i) always either on total vitiligo or psoriasis population and were (ii) mostly from light skinned Western-Caucasian cultural backgrounds. This letter is a part of a larger project that looked into the stigma among psoriasis and vitiligo. Our earlier study'21 was a cross sectional comparative study conducted at Karigiri, South India with a sample of 150 cases each of psoriasis and the same number of vitiligo, a total of 300 subjects. Nearly all of their unexposed skin shades were brown-black and fitted into Fitzpatrick skin type VI and from South Indian cultural background.
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