Psoriasis and Arthritis

PUFA, psoriasis and atherosclerotic CVD: evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey database 2003–2006 and 2009–2014

“…There is increasing evidence to suggest that psoriasis, a systemic, autoimmune inflammatory disease, is related to increased CVD risk, and CVD is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in psoriasis patients (22) . As early as more than 50 years ago, researchers found in autopsies that psoriasis patients had higher levels of myocardial fibrosis and coronary atherosclerosis and that the vascular endothelium of both diseased and non-diseased skin became thinner and damaged (23) . Subsequently, several epidemiological studies also demonstrated the association of psoriasis and poor cardiovascular events.…”

Psoriatic Eye Manifestations

“…7,8 The severity of ocular inflammation does not necessarily correlate with extent of joint findings but may correlate with skin disease. [24][25][26][27]…”

Psoriatic Arthritis

“…med. J., 1956;Wright, 1957c), have noted that, in those patients who had psoriasis with atrophic arthritis, the test was usually negative (Ball, 1952;Coste, 1958;Coste and others, 1958;de Forest, Mucci, and Boisvert, 1956;Jacobson, Kammerer, Wolf, Epstein, and Heller, 1956;Ziff, 1957), as was the latex-fixation test (Reed and Becker, 1960). From a previous study of 39 patients with psoriasis and arthritis, it was suggested that those patients who had a negative D.A.T.…”

“…Radiographically, the interest in this condition is reflected by the recent publication of single cases and small series (Carrier, 1958;Meaney and Hays, 1957;Reed and Becker, 1960). Good reviews of the subject have been published by Fawcitt (1950) and Sherman (1952), but surveys of the general field of psoriasis and joint disease have been few.…”