Risk and predictors of cardiovascular disease in psoriasis: a population-based study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Emerging evidence suggests that severe psoriasis is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The goal of this study was to examine the risk and predictors of clinical cardiovascular events in psoriasis.

Methods

We performed a historical cohort and a nested case-cohort study using the population-based resources in Olmsted County, Minnesota. The study population included a population-based incidence cohort of patients with psoriasis first diagnosed between January 1, 1970, and January 1, 2000, and 2678 age- and sex-matched non-psoriasis subjects. Cardiovascular events, including hospitalized myocardial infarction, coronary revascularization procedures, stroke, heart failure, and cardiovascular death.

Results

Psoriasis was associated with an i

SUBMITTER: Maradit-Kremers H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3539170 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature