Psoriasis not a cause of COPD

[Fred]

This cohort study comprised 7,029,160 patients over 20 years old explored the relationship between psoriasis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to determine whether patients with psoriasis are at increased risk for developing COPD.

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Background:
Understanding the relationship between psoriasis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may enhance disease management.

Objectives:
We aimed to determine the prevalence and incidence and risk of COPD in psoriasis patients.

Results:
The COPD prevalence was 9.64 % in psoriasis patients and 6.94 % in psoriasis-free patients. The COPD incidence was 10.74 per 1000 person-years in psoriasis patients and 6.36 per 1000 person-years in psoriasis-free patients. Multivariable Cox regression showed no association between psoriasis and COPD development (HR 0.99, p = 0.271).

Conclusions:
Our findings suggest that psoriasis is not an independent risk factor for COPD development.

Source: resmedjournal.com

*Funding unknown

[Caroline]

Well at least that is quite a nice conclusion.

[Turnedlight]

Well that’s good..

[Kat]

I have (mild) COPD. And now I guess I have to blame it more on my poor decision to smoke in my youth. Oh well.....

Good to know but sometimes hard to make the connection in why they do some of these studies.