Psoriasis is a chronic, autoimmune, and inflammatory disease of unknown etiology, characterized by T lymphocyte mediated keratinocyte proliferation. In recent years the relationship between psoriasis and adipose tissue cytokines has been reported. Psoriasis as a triggering factor for the immune and metabolic disorders can be associated with diabetes mellitus, abnormal lipid metabolism, and meta...

This study aims to explore the correlation between microRNA-143 (miR-143) expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and disease severity in patients with psoriasis vulgaris. From March 2014 to November 2015, 194 patients with psoriasis vulgaris (102 patients in progressive stage and 92 patients in stable stage) were selected as the case group and 175 healthy people as a control g...

A case-control study was performed to assess the serum levels of TNF-α, IL-12/23p40, and IL-17 in patients with plaque psoriasis, compare them with healthy controls, and correlate them with disease severity, as represented by Psoriasis Area Severity Index (PASI). 32 consecutively selected, untreated patients with active, chronic plaque psoriasis were recruited and compared to 32 age- and sex-ma...

BACKGROUND/AIM Psoriasis has been accepted as a systemic disease and it is known to be associated with various disorders including metabolic syndrome. High serum uric acid levels are also associated with the components of metabolic syndrome. In this study, we aimed to determine serum uric acid levels in patients with psoriasis and the association of uric acid levels with disease activity by tak...

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that usually requires long-term control. Etanercept has been shown to be effective in this disease. The efficacy and safety of etanercept were assessed in patients with psoriasis. In this 16-week open clinical trial, 29 patients with clinically stable psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis received etanercept (25 mg twice weekly) subcutaneously. All patie...

INTRODUCTION There is little evidence available on the efficacy and safety of biologic therapies for the treatment of psoriasis in Hispanic patients. Secukinumab is demonstrated to be highly effective for clearing psoriasis. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of secukinumab in Hispanic and non-Hispanic patients. METHODS Data were pooled from four phase 3 studies of s...

Geographic tongue (GT) and fissured tongue (FT) are the more frequent oral lesions in patients with psoriasis. The aims of this study were to compare the prevalence of GT/FT between psoriasis group (PG) and healthy controls (HC) and investigate the correlation between GT/FT and psoriasis severity using the PASI and age of psoriasis onset. Three hundred and forty-eight PG and 348 HC were selecte...

BACKGROUND We estimated the cost-effectiveness of intermittent therapy with etanercept in patients with moderate-to-severe plaque-type psoriasis in comparison to non-systemic therapy in Germany. PATIENTS AND METHODS We performed a cost-utility analysis using the endpoint costs per quality-adjusted life year gained (costs/QALY). For this purpose, we adapted a UK-based Markov model by means of ...

The Phase IIIb, double-blind GUIDE study evaluates the impact of early intervention and prolonged treatment intervals with guselkumab (GUS) on disease course in super responder (SRe) patients (pts) moderate–severe psoriasis (PSO). SRes (PASI=0 at Weeks [W] 20+28 GUS 100 mg Q8W [every 8W] treatment) were randomized to continue or extend Q16W, stratified by duration (short [SDD], ≤2 years [y]; lo...

Introduction Brodalumab is a monoclonal antibody that targets the subunit A of interleukin-17A receptor (IL17RA), inhibiting signaling various isoforms IL-17 family. It has been approved for treatment moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis after being evaluated in three Phase-3 trials. However, long-term data on brodalumab real-life setting are still limited. Methods The aim this study was to eval...