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. 2012:2012:714321.
doi: 10.1155/2012/714321. Epub 2012 May 8.

Cardiovascular risk in patients with psoriatic arthritis

Tracy Y Zhu  1 , Edmund K Li, Lai-Shan Tam
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Cardiovascular risk in patients with psoriatic arthritis

Tracy Y Zhu et al. Int J Rheumatol. 2012.

Abstract

Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is an inflammatory arthritis associated with psoriasis. In addition to skin and joint involvement, there is increasing evidence suggesting that patients with PsA also have an increase in risk of clinical and subclinical cardiovascular diseases, mostly due to accelerating atherosclerosis. Both conventional and nonconventional cardiovascular risk factors contribute to the increased cardiovascular risk in PsA. Chronic inflammation plays a pivotal role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis in PsA, acting independently and/or synergistically with the conventional risk factors. In this paper, we discuss the current literature indicating that patients with PsA are at risk of cardiovascular diseases.

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