The association between psoriasis and cardiovascular diseases
Year 2013,
Volume: 10 Issue: 12, 10 - 16, 21.03.2016
Göknur Kalkan
Ayşe Serap Karadağ
Abstract
Psöriyazis ve kardiyovasküler hastalık arasındaki ilişki son yıllardaki epidemiyolojik veriler ile desteklenmiştir. Psöriyazis hastalarında kardiyovasküler hastalıklarının birlikte görülme sıklığının artmasından dolayı dermatoloji uzmanları bu hastalığını bir sistemik hastalık olarak düşünmeli ve dikkatli olmalıdır. Bundan dolayı çalışmalar psöriyazis hastalığında kardiyovasküler hastalık gelişme riskini araştırmaya, özel stratejilerin ve kılavuzların geliştirelebilmesine yoğunlaşmıştır
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The association between psoriasis and cardiovascular diseases
Year 2013,
Volume: 10 Issue: 12, 10 - 16, 21.03.2016
Göknur Kalkan
Ayşe Serap Karadağ
Abstract
The association between psoriasis and cardiovascular disease risk has been supported by recent epidemiological data. Because of increased prevalence of cardiovascular co morbidities in patients with psoriasis, dermatologists should consider the disease as a possible multisystem disease and warn these patients for the prospective negative effects of their disease. Therefore, studies should concentrate on instituting the exact mechanisms that concluding cardiovascular disease risk in psoriasis so that proper protective strategies and treatment guidelines can be created.
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- Shirinsky IV, Shirinsky VS. Efficacy of simvastatin in plaque psoriasis:A pilot study. J Am Acad Dermatol 2007;57:529–31.