Association Between Short-term Exposure to Environmental Air Pollution and Psoriasis Flare.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disease with a relapsing-remitting course. Selected environmental factors such as infections, stressful life events, or drugs may trigger disease flares. Whether air pollution could trigger psoriasis flares is still unknown.

Objective

To investigate whether short-term exposure to environmental air pollution is associated with psoriasis flares.

Design, setting, and participants

This observational study with both case-crossover and cross-sectional design retrospectively analyzed longitudinal data from September 2013 to January 2020 from patients with chronic plaque psoriasis consecutively attending the outpatient dermatologic clinic of the University Hospital of Verona. For the case-crossover analysis, patients were include

SUBMITTER: Bellinato F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8851365 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature