Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Psoriasis is not only a skin disease, is a chronic inflammatory disease associated with serious comorbidities: psoriatic arthritis, metabolic syndrome (obesity, dyslipidemia and insulin resistance), Crohn’s disease, depression, ocular problems, cardio-vascular diseases (myocardial infarction), cancer.

Methods: 1236 patients (male 54.13% and female 45.87%) with psoriasis were seen in an Outpatient Clinic over a period of 8 years (2004–2011). The presence of different concomitant diseases were noted within psoriasis patients (Table 1).

Results: Comorbidities were absent in 732 patients (59.22%) and present in 504 patients (41.78%); cardio-vascular diseases in 162 patients (12.52%), diabetes in 50 cases (4.03%), psoriatic arthritis in 166 patients (13.43%).

Thyroid problems were present in 22 patients representing 1.77% of all cases (autoimmune thyroiditis one patient/0.08%, thyroidectomy eight patients/0.64%, hypothyroidism nine patients/0.73%, thyroid goiter three patients/0.24% and thyroid cancer one patient/0.08%).

Conclusions: In our study, we didn’t observe a statistical importance of prevalence of thyroid abnormalities within patients with psoriasis.