Prevalence of psoriasis phenotypes among men and women in the USA.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We present the largest set of US prevalence data for psoriasis to date, obtained from three prospective cohort studies describing validated clinical phenotypes of psoriasis, including novel data about the prevalence of inverse (intertriginous) psoriasis in these groups. Nonplaque psoriasis phenotypes have been largely unmeasured in observational and interventional studies, and this has led to an under-recognition of this aspect of psoriatic disease.

Aim

To describe the prevalence of nonplaque psoriasis phenotypes in a large prospective cohort.

Methods

We included 3179 women and 646 men in the analysis. Participants in the Nurses Health Study (NHS) and Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS) with physician-diagnosed psoriasis completed a validated, self-

SUBMITTER: Merola JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4915990 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature