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. 2011 Sep-Oct;56(5):553-6.
doi: 10.4103/0019-5154.87154.

Cardiovascular comorbiditiy in psoriasis

Gurcharan Singh  1 , Simran Pal Singh Aneja
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Cardiovascular comorbiditiy in psoriasis

Gurcharan Singh et al. Indian J Dermatol. 2011 Sep-Oct.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Carsiovascular disease; metabolic syndrome; psoriasis.

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