the prevalence of psoriasis - a chronic inflammatory disease of the skin-is significantly higher in overweight and obese children, researchers found.
The online published in the journal of Pediatrics, Kaiser Permanente study also found that teenagers with psoriasis (regardless of their body weight) set higher cholesterol levels, they have higher risk of heart disease.
"This study suggests a link between obesity and psoriasis in children," lead author of the study of Corinna Koebnick, scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Southern California's Department of & research evaluation, said in a press release of Kaiser Permanente.
"But our findings also suggest that the increased risk for patients begins with psoriasis heart disease in childhood in the form of higher cholesterol levels." We can need to monitor youth with psoriasis more for heart-cardiovascular risk factors, in particular, if they are obese, "added Koebnick."
To study 710,949 racially and ethnically diverse children, with electronic health records, the investigators found that obese children were more psoriasis as normal weight children almost 40 percent. Still more endangered extremely obese children were more nearly 80 percent have psoriasis as normal weight children. Furthermore, it was four times more likely for psoriasis, severe or more common in obese youth as normal weight children be.
The study also showed that, compared to children without psoriasis, young people had the skin condition 4 to 16 percent higher cholesterol levels and liver enzymes, regardless of their weight.
Psoriasis as a distressing skin condition, often only considered can endanger children for metabolic disease (e.g. diabetes, metabolic syndrome and heart disease), seen in adults, authors the study said.
"It well described, that adults with psoriasis have increased cardiovascular risk factors, but now we have examined these issues in children,", senior said study author, Dr. Jashin j. Wu, Director of clinical research and the associate residency program and Director of the Department of Dermatology at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, in the press release.
"How these patients about 30 to 40 years following, we were able to determine whether this increased cardiovascular risk factors in turn increase the risk for the main cardiac side effects,", said Wu.
The researchers acknowledged that the study had limitations due to its cross section design, where body weight and information on psoriasis were evaluated at the same time, and explains that discusses these issues in future studies would.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics provides information on childhood obesity.
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