According to research it has been found that the prevalence
of both smoking and obesity
is higher among patients with psoriasis as compared to the general
population. Mark D. Herron, M.D., now in private practice in
Montgomery, Ala., and colleagues from the University of Utah
School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, studied the impact of obesity
and smoking on psoriasis.
In the research, a case series of patients with psoriasis
enrolled in the prospective Utah Psoriasis Initiative (UPI)
was compared with three population databases: the Behavioral
Risk Factor Surveillance System of the Utah population, the
1998 patient-member survey from the National Psoriasis Foundation,
and 500 adult patients who attend the University of Utah Department
of Dermatology clinics and do not have psoriasis. It has been
found that the prevalence of obesity in patients within the
UPI population was higher than that in the general Utah population.
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