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KAUAI, HAWAII – The recent report that the risk of a major adverse cardiovascular event increases by 1% more than in the general population for each additional year of psoriasis duration is sobering news for physicians who treat pediatric psoriasis.
“If I have a 16-year-old who has a 5-year history of psoriasis, what does that mean for when she’s 30 or 40? And should we be intervening more aggressively?” Lawrence F. Eichenfield, MD, asked at the Hawaii Dermatology Seminar provided by the Global Academy for Medical Education/Skin Disease Education Foundation.
“Even though there’s not a great deal of evidence, there’s some evidence to rationalize early screening in psoriasis,” according to Dr. Eichenfield, chief of pediatric and adolescent dermatology at Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego and professor of dermatology and pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego.
Psoriasis develops during childhood in almost one-third of patients.
The pediatric psoriasis screening guidelines describe a simple routine screening program and timeline for early identification of overweight or obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, inflammatory bowel disease, and quality of life issues, all of which are encountered with increased frequency in pediatric psoriasis patients. A fasting lipid panel is recommended in children aged 9-11 years with psoriasis and again at age 17-21 years.
“Don’t forget arthritis. For a kid with psoriasis, at every office visit, I ask about morning stiffness or limp. Those are probably the two most sensitive questions in screening for psoriatic arthritis,” according to Dr. Eichenfield.
It has been clear for some time that the skin is not the only organ affected by psoriatic inflammation. The study that quantified the relationship between psoriasis duration and cardiovascular risk – a 1% increase for each year of psoriasis – was a collaboration between investigators at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
The two-part project included aortal imaging of 190 psoriasis patients using fludeoxyglucose F 18 PET/CT scan, which showed a strong relationship between duration of psoriasis and the degree of vascular inflammation. This was bolstered by a population-based study using Danish national registry data on 87,161 psoriasis patients and 4.2 million controls from the general Danish population (J Am Acad Dermatol. 2017 Oct;77[4]:650-56.e3).
Dr. Eichenfield reported serving as a consultant to and/or recipient of research grants from more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies.
SDEF/Global Academy for Medical Education and this news organization are owned by the same parent company.
KAUAI, HAWAII – The recent report that the risk of a major adverse cardiovascular event increases by 1% more than in the general population for each additional year of psoriasis duration is sobering news for physicians who treat pediatric psoriasis.
“If I have a 16-year-old who has a 5-year history of psoriasis, what does that mean for when she’s 30 or 40? And should we be intervening more aggressively?” Lawrence F. Eichenfield, MD, asked at the Hawaii Dermatology Seminar provided by the Global Academy for Medical Education/Skin Disease Education Foundation.
“Even though there’s not a great deal of evidence, there’s some evidence to rationalize early screening in psoriasis,” according to Dr. Eichenfield, chief of pediatric and adolescent dermatology at Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego and professor of dermatology and pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego.
Psoriasis develops during childhood in almost one-third of patients.
The pediatric psoriasis screening guidelines describe a simple routine screening program and timeline for early identification of overweight or obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, inflammatory bowel disease, and quality of life issues, all of which are encountered with increased frequency in pediatric psoriasis patients. A fasting lipid panel is recommended in children aged 9-11 years with psoriasis and again at age 17-21 years.
“Don’t forget arthritis. For a kid with psoriasis, at every office visit, I ask about morning stiffness or limp. Those are probably the two most sensitive questions in screening for psoriatic arthritis,” according to Dr. Eichenfield.
It has been clear for some time that the skin is not the only organ affected by psoriatic inflammation. The study that quantified the relationship between psoriasis duration and cardiovascular risk – a 1% increase for each year of psoriasis – was a collaboration between investigators at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
The two-part project included aortal imaging of 190 psoriasis patients using fludeoxyglucose F 18 PET/CT scan, which showed a strong relationship between duration of psoriasis and the degree of vascular inflammation. This was bolstered by a population-based study using Danish national registry data on 87,161 psoriasis patients and 4.2 million controls from the general Danish population (J Am Acad Dermatol. 2017 Oct;77[4]:650-56.e3).
Dr. Eichenfield reported serving as a consultant to and/or recipient of research grants from more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies.
SDEF/Global Academy for Medical Education and this news organization are owned by the same parent company.
KAUAI, HAWAII – The recent report that the risk of a major adverse cardiovascular event increases by 1% more than in the general population for each additional year of psoriasis duration is sobering news for physicians who treat pediatric psoriasis.
“If I have a 16-year-old who has a 5-year history of psoriasis, what does that mean for when she’s 30 or 40? And should we be intervening more aggressively?” Lawrence F. Eichenfield, MD, asked at the Hawaii Dermatology Seminar provided by the Global Academy for Medical Education/Skin Disease Education Foundation.
“Even though there’s not a great deal of evidence, there’s some evidence to rationalize early screening in psoriasis,” according to Dr. Eichenfield, chief of pediatric and adolescent dermatology at Rady Children’s Hospital–San Diego and professor of dermatology and pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego.
Psoriasis develops during childhood in almost one-third of patients.
The pediatric psoriasis screening guidelines describe a simple routine screening program and timeline for early identification of overweight or obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, anxiety, depression, substance abuse, inflammatory bowel disease, and quality of life issues, all of which are encountered with increased frequency in pediatric psoriasis patients. A fasting lipid panel is recommended in children aged 9-11 years with psoriasis and again at age 17-21 years.
“Don’t forget arthritis. For a kid with psoriasis, at every office visit, I ask about morning stiffness or limp. Those are probably the two most sensitive questions in screening for psoriatic arthritis,” according to Dr. Eichenfield.
It has been clear for some time that the skin is not the only organ affected by psoriatic inflammation. The study that quantified the relationship between psoriasis duration and cardiovascular risk – a 1% increase for each year of psoriasis – was a collaboration between investigators at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
The two-part project included aortal imaging of 190 psoriasis patients using fludeoxyglucose F 18 PET/CT scan, which showed a strong relationship between duration of psoriasis and the degree of vascular inflammation. This was bolstered by a population-based study using Danish national registry data on 87,161 psoriasis patients and 4.2 million controls from the general Danish population (J Am Acad Dermatol. 2017 Oct;77[4]:650-56.e3).
Dr. Eichenfield reported serving as a consultant to and/or recipient of research grants from more than a dozen pharmaceutical companies.
SDEF/Global Academy for Medical Education and this news organization are owned by the same parent company.
EXPERT ANALYSIS FROM SDEF HAWAII DERMATOLOGY SEMINAR