Background and aim: Psoriasis is a chronic, multisystem inflammatory skin disease that adversely affects the quality of life. It is crucial to control disease activity and use all of the feasible therapeutic modalities to preserve the quality of life as much as possible. Heliotherapy uses natural sunlight in improving different skin conditions and represents the form of phototherapy. This study aims to assess the long-term effects of heliotherapy and compare it with outcomes of other research. Materials and methods: A total of 27 patients participated in an observational study of 2-week heliotherapy conducted at the seaside of Montenegro. Disease activity and the quality of life were measured using PASI and DLQI scores at three points of time: before starting heliotherapy, after two weeks, and three months of heliotherapy. Results: Mean PASI score before the treatment was 11,31. The results revealed a decrease in PASI values after 14 days of therapy by 30%, as well as a statistically significant decrease in PASI values ​​after three months of therapy by 29% (p <0.001). Additionally, the present study has shown a reduction in DLQI score by 41.7% (p <0.001) comparing to baseline. However, three months after the heliotherapy DLQI score was reduced by 8,33% (p=0.006) comparing to the baseline, indicating that the score was returning to the pre-therapy values. Conclusion: To conclude, two-week heliotherapy has shown satisfying, long-lasting effects in reducing PASI score and ameliorating disease severity, but it did not show beneficial effects in improving the quality of life in the long term.

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The Long Term Ability of Heliotherapy in Improving the Quality of Life and Alleviating Disease Activity in Patients with Psoriasis

Context: Epidemiological data demonstrate that psoriasis patients suffer from a spectrum of co-morbidities such as cardiovascular disorders and metabolic syndrome (MS).
Aims: To compare the prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its individual components in psoriatic patients to that of the control population. Also to compare the descriptive characteristics of psoriasis in patients with and without the metabolic syndrome.
Settings and Design: Cross-sectional study.
Methods and Material: 51 patients with a clinical diagnosis of chronic plaque psoriasis were taken for the study. Metabolic syndrome was identified with the National Cholesterol Education Program’s Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines.
Statistical analysis used: Statistical Package for the Social Sciences {SPSS} version 13 software, Chi square test and Student’s t test were used where appropriate.
Results: MS was found in 21(41.2%) of the psoriatic patients compared to only 16 (31.4%) of non-psoriatic controls in our study. Psoriatic patients with MS had a higher mean age and later age of onset of psoriasis. There was no positive correlation of severity or duration of the disease with MS in this study, but psoriatic arthritis was found to be more in patients having metabolic syndrome. Also psoriatic patients with MS had a statistically significant higher BMI than psoriatics who had no MS.
Conclusions: MS was found to be more in psoriatic patients, even though it was not statistically significant. Psoriatic patients with MS had a higher mean age, later age of onset, higher BMI and higher prevalence of psoriatic arthritis than those without MS.

Keywords: Crosssectional study, Metabolic syndrome, Psoriasis vulgaris.

https://www.ijced.org/journal-article-file/13295

A study of the association of psoriasis with metabolic syndrome from a tertiary care centre in Kerala, South India

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A study of the association of psoriasis with metabolic syndrome from a tertiary care centre in Kerala, South India