A Clinical and Epidemiological Study of Psoriasis and its Association with Various Biochemical Parameters in Newly Diagnosed Cases

Abstract

Background: There has been a lot of recent search on consideration of psoriasis as a systemic disease, with researchers being of the view that dermatological manifestations represent only a part of the spectrum. Although, there have been plenty of studies from the west reporting an association of psoriasis with the metabolic syndrome, there are no large-scale Indian studies evaluating Asian patients. The present study is an endeavour in this regard. Aim:To investigate the prevalence of metabolic syndrome in Indian patients with newly diagnosed psoriasis at the onset of the disease.

Psoriasis Vulgaris with or without Arthritis and Independent of Disease Severity or Duration Is a Risk Factor for Hypercholesterolemia

“…With these data we can conclude that our patients with Ps have a 48% increased odds of suffering TG >200 mg/dl. These results are similar to those found by different authors [1,45,46]. …”

“…Since 1987, numerous studies have been conducted to study DL in Ps [1,2,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46]. The results vary since they are based on heterogeneous populations, with or without associated comorbidities, and do not always take into account prescribed medications that can alter the lipid profile or liver function tests [29,30,31,32,33,34,35].…”