Psoriasis Linked To DIABETES, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

Women with psoriasis run a higher risk of diabetes and high blood pressure, perhaps because of the underlying inflammation that causes the skin condition, researchers said on Monday.

Psoriasis should be considered "a systemic disorder, rather than simply a skin disease," Dr. Abrar Qureshi of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston wrote in a study in the April issue of Archives of Dermatology.

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[DrCharlesMartin]

09:18 AM on 04/23/2009

This is interestin­g research that holds much promise. We continue to learn more about the links between inflammati­on and diabetes. At my blog, www.dentis­tryfordiab­etics.com, I write extensivel­y about the inflammati­on that accompanie­s gum disease and how treating that often helps people with diabetes better control their blood sugar. Also, I recently wrote about how Johns Hopkins researcher­s had found that an old drug, clofazimin­e, may be useful in treating diabetes as well as psoriasis.

Charles Martin, DDS
Founder, Dentistry for Diabetics