Early diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis among psoriasis patients: clinical experience sharing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The early detection of psoriatic arthritis (PSA) poses a challenge to rheumatologists, even when their diagnosis is aided by sonography. In order to facilitate early detection of PSA among patients with psoriasis (PSO), we retrospectively analyzed of the relationships between serological markers and comorbidities in 629 psoriatic patients, 102 of which had PSA, while the other 527 had PSO.

Results

Serological markers were found not to be useful in distinguishing between PSA and PSO (p > 0.05 for all comparisons). The prevalence rate of PSA among PSO patients was around 19.4%. Two components of metabolic syndrome-hyperlipidemia (2.94%) and gout (4.9%)-were significantly more prevalent in PSA patients than in PSO patients (p < 0.05). The odds ratio for PSA is 15.94

SUBMITTER: Su YJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7648743 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature