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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance are not just common among patients with psoriatic arthritis, but both also correlate with the severity of the inflammatory musculoskeletal disease, according to a single-center, cross-sectional cohort study.
In the study of 283 consecutive white patients with longstanding psoriatic arthritis who attended a rheumatology clinic during a 1-year period, 44% were found to have the metabolic syndrome and 16% to have insulin resistance. "Our findings are novel and support our pretest hypothesis that the risk of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance increases with the severity of underlying psoriatic arthritis, probably reflecting the increasing burden of inflammation," said Dr. Muhammad Haroon of the department of rheumatology and his associates at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin.
http://www.clinicalendocrinologynew...atients/dfa3be0e555aa0e00c67d302b262273b.html
In the study of 283 consecutive white patients with longstanding psoriatic arthritis who attended a rheumatology clinic during a 1-year period, 44% were found to have the metabolic syndrome and 16% to have insulin resistance. "Our findings are novel and support our pretest hypothesis that the risk of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance increases with the severity of underlying psoriatic arthritis, probably reflecting the increasing burden of inflammation," said Dr. Muhammad Haroon of the department of rheumatology and his associates at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin.
http://www.clinicalendocrinologynew...atients/dfa3be0e555aa0e00c67d302b262273b.html