VIDEO: What psoriatic arthritis awareness means for clinicians, patients

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As Dr. Haques said, nail disease, in a patient with psoriasis, is going to increase. It is associated with high risk of arthritis. Certain patterns of the skin disease, not just extensive psoriasis, but intergluteal psoriasis, scalp psoriasis, are things that were associated in studies, with higher hazard ratios versus not having these features for psoriatic arthritis. Other red flags like inflammatory back pain, for sure, family history. There seems to be a difference between people who have a family history of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis and people who don't, including phenotypical differences, like presence of enthesitis, presence of more aggressive arthritis. Getting the hand radiograph to see whether this is someone who has early aggressive disease. I think it is very important as well.

And I would just add to that I think like, for people who have psoriasis and for the psoriatic arthritis community, you know some of the things that Dr. Orbai, I think you mentioned to which is important in patient education is that it is not a contagious disease, right. It is modifiable that it is critical for them to get treatment. And I think now they see so many ads on the television that they, they probably are well aware of it that people who have really severe psoriasis can have such a marked and significant improvement in their skin psoriasis. So as Dr. Orbai said, you know, the psoriasis community needs to be aware of the skin and the joints and how, if they're hurting to get early assessment by their providers so that if indeed they have psoriatic arthritis they can make their way to a rheumatologist.