(HealthDay)—The incidence of Alzheimer disease (AD) is significantly higher in patients with psoriasis versus individuals without psoriasis, according to a Korean study published online April 15 in Scientific Reports.
Miri Kim, from the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul, and colleagues used data from the Korean National Health Insurance System to identify 535,927 individuals with psoriasis and 2,679,635 age- and sex-matched controls without psoriasis who underwent at least three health examinations between 2008 and 2014. Risk for AD was assessed in the two groups.
The researchers found that during a median follow-up of 3.35 years, there were 50,209 cases of AD (1.87 percent) in controls versus 11,311 cases (2.11…
