Indian Journal of Dermatology (Jan 2011)

Cardiovascular comorbiditiy in psoriasis

  • Gurcharan Singh,
  • Simran Pal Singh Aneja

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.87154
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 56, no. 5
pp. 553 – 556

Abstract

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The chronic inflammatory nature of psoriasis is also thought to predispose patients to other diseases with an inflammatory component, the most notable being cardiovascular and metabolic (cardiometabolite) disorders. This concept is supported by studies showing that psoriasis is associated with cardiovascular risk factors like diabetes, obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking and diseases including MI. Given the increased prevalence of cardiovascular co morbidities in patients, dermatologists treating psoriasis need to approach the disease as a potentially multisystem disorder and must alert these patients to the potentially negative effects of their disease.

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