Risk of serious illness climbs with psoriasis severity

By Anne Harding NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with psoriasis have an increased risk of serious medical illness, and the more severe their skin disease, the more severe the risk for other conditions, new research finds. Those with the most severe psoriasis - affecting more than 10 percent of the skin surface - are at nearly twice the risk of heart and blood vessel disease compared to people without psoriasis, Dr. Joel Gelfand, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, and his colleagues report. ...



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