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Psoriasis and Cardiovascular Risk: Strength in Numbers
Journal of Investigative DermatologyVol. 130Issue 4p919–922Published in issue: April, 2010- Joel M. Gelfand
- Rahat S. Azfar
- Nehal N. Mehta
Cited in Scopus: 51In this issue, Wakkee and colleagues report a self-described exploratory cohort study and conclude that psoriasis may not be an independent risk factor for ischemic heart disease (IHD) hospitalization and that there is only a slight and borderline increased risk of ischemic heart disease among psoriasis patients. This negative result should be interpreted in light of the study’s limitations, the complex relationship among levels of psoriasis severity, patient age, and cardiovascular (CV) risk, and the context of the rapidly growing literature.
