Psoriatic Disease and Tuberculosis Nowadays

Psoriatic Disease and Tuberculosis Nowadays

Psoriasis is a chronic, relapsing and remitting inflammatory skin and joint disease that has a prevalence of 2-3% in the world's population, whereas of 1-2% in Europe. The traditional concept of psoriasis as the "healthy people's" disease has been recently revised because of ever-increasing reports of associations with various pathological conditions (hypertension, Crohn's disease, type II diab...

Psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, or psoriatic disease?

In this issue of The Journal, Madland, et al report results of a 2 week pilot study on a dietary supplementation with seal oil compared to soy oil in patients with psoriatic polyarthritis1. Despite its short duration, several results of this research are significant. Mainly, 4 weeks after the treatment, subjects taking seal oil dietary supplementation reported improvement in patient’s global as...

Leprosy: ancient disease remains a public health problem nowadays*

Despite being an ancient disease, leprosy remains a public health problem in several countries -particularly in India, Brazil and Indonesia. The current operational guidelines emphasize the evaluation of disability from the time of diagnosis and stipulate as fundamental principles for disease control: early detection and proper treatment. Continued efforts are needed to establish and improve qu...

Gastrointestinal disease and psoriatic arthritis.

Inverse correlation between glutathione peroxidase activity in psoriatic cutaneous lesions and the severity of the disease

Background: Psoriasis is a chronic-relapsing inflammatory skin disorder, in whose pathogenesis oxidative stress is suggested to be involved. Among different enzymes that play a role in maintaining the cellular redox balance, we aimed to assess the alteration of glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity in cutaneous lesions and its correlation with the disease severity, firstly, to support the possi...