Research data is based on a study conducted by a team of rheumatologists at New York University who worked with patients from NYU Langone Medical Center’s bariatric surgery program.
Researchers looked through the record of more than 9,000 patients who has bariatric surgery. Out of those, the researchers worked with 86 psoriatic disease patients, asking them to rate on a scale of 0 to 10 the degree of improvement they saw in their psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis following bariatric surgery.
Here are three observations:
1. More than half of patients with psoriasis and 62 percent of patients with psoriatic arthritis reported that their disease improved, and patients who had more severe psoriatic disease to begin with experienced more improvement.
2. Soumya Reddy, MD, senior author of the study and NYU’s Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Center, and her colleagues are working on a prospective study that will identify psoriatic disease patients before they bariatric surgery and compare their disease severity before and after the procedure.
3. Dr. Reddy hopes to enroll 20 to 30 patients in the prospective study.
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