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Geoepidemiology and environmental factors of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
Journal of autoimmunity - 1 May 2010
Chandran Vinod, Raychaudhuri Siba P
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Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA) are chronic inflammatory diseases that have a major impact on health. The prevalence and incidence estimates of these two closely related diseases show ethnic and geographic variations, being generally more common in the colder north than in the tropics. In Europe the prevalence of psoriasis varies anywhere from 0.6 to 6.5%. In the USA, the estimated prevalence of diagnosed...
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