Toughest Psoriasis Cases Can Be Tamed by Yale Medicine’s Dermatologists. Peter Amento avoided shorts and short sleeves for most of his life, no matter how warm the weather. When he did wear them, “People would comment: ‘What have you got? Poison ivy?’ That’s how bad my psoriasis would look,” says the 61-year-old husband and father of three from...Continue reading
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Psoriasis Linked to Diabetes: Risk is Highest with Severe Psoriasis; Men Need to Be Screened for Diabetes
November is National Diabetes Month and the roughly 3.75 million men in the U.S. with psoriasis—the most common autoimmune disease in the country, affecting roughly 7.5 million Americans—are at increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes.