Do Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis Have More Severe Skin Disease than Patients with Psoriasis Only? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early identification of patients at risk of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) is essential to facilitate early diagnosis and improve clinical outcomes. Severe cutaneous psoriasis has been proposed to be associated with PsA, but a recent assessment of the evidence is lacking. Therefore, in this systematic review, we address the association of psoriasis skin severity with the presence and development of PsA.

Summary

We included articles from a review published in 2014 and supplemented these with recent literature by performing an additional systematic search to identify studies published between 1 January 2013 and 11 February 2021. A meta-analysis was performed when sufficient comparable evidence was available. Of 2,000 screened articles, we included 29 in the analysis, of

SUBMITTER: Pouw JN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9677854 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature