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Mental health in psoriatic disease (Proceedings of the 7th IFPA WPPAC)
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The association between psoriatic disease and psychological phenomena such as anxiety and depression may be explained by the stigmatising attitude of society towards the visibly affected skin areas in patients with psoriatic disease. There is however a different connection between psoriatic disease and...
Understanding pain in psoriatic disease (Proceedings of the 7th IFPA WPPAC)
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The management of psoriatic disease has been focused at targeting the underlying inflammatory process, assuming that this would reduce the pain that is associated with psoriatic disease. According to Ms Amanda Wall (University of Oxford, UK), who is a physiotherapist specialised in chronic pain and fatigue,...
Hot topic debate: Preventing psoriatic arthritis (Proceedings of the 7th IFPA WPPAC)
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Is it possible to prevent psoriatic arthritis in patients with psoriasis by treating these patients with effective therapies? The evidence to date suggests that patients with psoriasis who were treated with biologics have a reduced risk of psoriatic arthritis if they were compared with patients who received...
