Arterial Stiffness Without Other Inflammatory Markers May Not Accurately Provide Information to Clinicians About the Severity of Psoriasis

Abstract

Get full access to this article

View all access options for this article.

References

Balta

Demirkol

. Aortic arterial stiffness is a moderate predictor of cardiovascular disease in patients with psoriasis vulgaris [Published online May 1, 2013]. Angiology. 2013. doi: 10.1177/0003319713485805

Altun

Bulucu

Demirbas

. The relationship between some of the cardiovascular risk factors and arterial stiffness parameters in essentially hypertensive patients [published online November 29, 2012]. Clin Exp Hypertens. 2012.

Achimastos

Efstathiou

Christoforatos

Panagiotou

Stergiou

Mountokalakis

. Arterial stiffness: determinants and relationship to the metabolic syndrome. Angiology. 2007;58(1):11–20.

Zhu

Xiong

Zheng

Chen

Qian

Chen

. Association of serum gamma-glutamyltransferase with arterial stiffness in established coronary artery disease. Angiology. 2013;64(1):15–20.

Ticulescu

Vriz

Sparacino

. Incremental value of arterial stiffness over traditional risk factors in predicting subclinical cardiovascular remodeling in patients with moderate chronic renal failure. Angiology. 2011;62(8):662–668.

Vyssoulis

Karpanou

Kyvelou

. Beneficial effect of angiotensin II type 1 receptor blocker antihypertensive treatment on arterial stiffness: the role of smoking. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich). 2008;10(3):201–207.

Feng

Luo

. Associations of plasma homocysteine and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels with arterial stiffness in Chinese population: a community-based study. Chin Med J. 2012;125(1):44–49.

Karabudak

Ulusoy

Erikci

Solmazgul

Dogan

Harmanyeri

. Inflammation and hypercoagulable state in adult psoriatic men. Acta Derm Venereol. 2008;88(4):337–340.

Hani

Prakasa

Nugroho

Affandi

Hussein

. Body surface area measurement and soft clustering for PASI area assessment. Conf Proc IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2012;2012:4398–4401.

10.

Ahlehoff

Skov

Gislason

. Cardiovascular disease event rates in patients with severe psoriasis treated with systemic anti-inflammatory drugs: a Danish real-world cohort study. J Intern Med. 2013;273(2):197–204.