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Psoriatic Arthritis Raises Risk of Type 2 Diabetes

But cardiovascular risk is similar to that seen in patients with psoriasis.

Reference1. Charlton R, Green A, Shaddick G, et al; PROMPT study group. Risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease in an incident cohort of people with psoriatic arthritis: a population-based cohort study. Rheumatology. 2018 Sep 6. doi:10.1093/rheumatology/key286. [Epub ahead of print]

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Charlton and colleagues in the United Kingdom have discovered that type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) develops in significantly more patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) than those with psoriasis; however, cardiovascular risk is similar in both psoriatic conditions.1 Scroll through the slides for the details of their study and the take-home points for clinicians.

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