Significant weight loss improves and prevents psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis in obese patients: a Critically Appraised Topic and a call to action

Abstract

Linked Article: Mahil et al. Br J Dermatol 2019; 181:946–953.

The need for strategies to address obesity and psoriatic arthritis prevention in psoriasis

“…[4][5][6][8][9][10] Clearly, there is ample evidence to demonstrate that obesity is bad. Increasingly, there is also a body of evidence supporting weight loss as an effective treatment for patients with psoriasis, as reviewed recently by Mahil et al 11,12 And, for further fodder, we now also know from Green et al that weight loss is associated with a lower risk for PsA.…”