Psoriasis ve metabolik sendrom

Background and Design: Psoriasis is a chronic, inflammatory disease that occurs with poligenic and other triggering factors. Psoriasis which is accepted as a systemic disease has been verified to be associated with other diseases. Cardiovascular diseases, hepatosteatosis, obesity, diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperlipidemia are the ones that are the most significant.\udMaterial and Method: In thıs study fasting blood glucose, serum lipid levels (total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, triglyceride), basal insulin levels, insulin resistances and body mass indexes, cigarette and alcohol habits of 50 adult patients are compared with the age and gender matched 50 nonpsoriatic controls. \udConclusion: In our study, methabolic syndrome and its components diabetes mellitus, obesity, hypertension, dyslipidemia are found to be in higher rates in psoriatic group compared to nonpsoriatics