"The treatment of most psoriasis cases will involve topical agents including steroids, vitamin D analogues, calcineurin inhibitors and keratolytics 1. Phototherapy, in which patients are exposed to ultraviolet light, also improves the disease. In more severe cases, biologics such as TNF-alpha inhibitors are used."
"Psoriasis is an inflammatory dermatological disease with several variants. The most common variant is plaque psoriasis; other variants of the disease are guttate, erythrodermic and pustular psoriasis 1."
"In most populations, psoriasis appears to affect men and women equally; about a quarter of psoriasis patients have been diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis. Careful radiological imaging studies indicate the prevalence of arthritis in these patients may be even higher 3."
"Psoriasis is an inflammatory dermatological disease with several variants. The most common variant is plaque psoriasis; other variants of the disease are guttate, erythrodermic and pustular psoriasis 1."
"There is geographic variation in psoriasis prevalence, with populations farther from the equator having a higher disease burden, e.g. prevalence rates vary from 0.05% in Taiwan 6 to 8% in Norway 2. In all populations, children are less affected than adults 2."
"medications, most commonly vaccines, beta-blockers, lithium, anti-malarial drugs, interferons 6,7"