Volume : 6, Issue : 3, March - 2017

STUDY ON SERUM LIPID PROFILE IN PSORIATIC PATIENTS: A HOSPITAL BASED STUDY

Krishan Kant Pandey, Mirza R. U. Beg

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Camia&quot;,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:&#10;major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman">Psoriasis is a </span></i><i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Camia&quot;,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:&#10;major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;">lifelong </span></i><i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Camia&quot;,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:&#10;major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman">chronic inflammatory skin disorder affecting </span></i><i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Camia&quot;,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:&#10;major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin">upto 1-2% of the world&rsquo;s population</span></i><i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Camia&quot;,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;&#10;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:TimesNewRoman">.²</span></i><i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Camia&quot;,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:&#10;major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"> Psoriasis is a common chronic recurrent inflammatory skin disorder characterized by hyperproliferation and reduced differentiation of keratinocytes. </span></i><i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;&#10;font-family:&quot;Camia&quot;,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:&#10;major-latin">Our aim was to evaluate the serum total cholesterol, triglyceride, HDL-c, LDL-c and VLDL-c levels in patients with Psoriasis and compared the levels with those of healthy controls.. </span></i><i style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Camia&quot;,serif;&#10;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:&#10;TimesNewRoman">We found significant differences for all examined biomarkers (TC, TG, LDL-c and VLDL-c) with the exception of HDL-c in psoriatic patients compared with controls.</span></i></p> <p class="Default" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><i><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Camia&quot;,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:&#10;major-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-latin"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>