Research Article: More than skin-deep: visceral fat is strongly associated with disease activity, function and metabolic indices in psoriatic disease
Abstract:
To compare body composition between patients with psoriatic disease (PsD), including cutaneous psoriasis (PsO) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and controls, and to explore associations between disease activity and measures of function and metabolic derangement.
Introduction:
Psoriasis is an immune-mediated chronic inflammatory disease affecting the skin, entheses and joints, with an estimated prevalence in adults ranging from 0.5 to 11.4%, and in children from 0 to 1.4% [1]. Psoriatic disease (PsD) is an umbrella term used to encompass the multitude of ways that psoriasis can manifest clinically, including both cutaneous psoriasis (PsO) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) [2].
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