Extracts from the Lectures of the 32nd Nordic Congress of Dermato-Venereology, Tampere, Finland
independent role of the patient’s sex in initiating such therapy.
The psoriasis severity was de?ned as a time-varying variable.
The results showed that men had more severe psoriasis than
women according to the Psoriasis Activity and Severity Index
(PASI), regardless of age at enrolment, and throughout the
study period. The analysis of the multiple Cox regression show
that age, psoriasis severity and psoriasis arthropathy were relevant factors for initiating biological therapy, whereas sex is not.
Although as many women as men are believed to suffer from
psoriasis, men seem to be more severely affected by psoriasis.
The asymmetry in allocation of biological therapy thereby
probably re?ects the differing disease activity between the
sexes, and is not a discrimination of women per se.
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