(DoctorNDTV) — People who have psoriasis and hypertension (high blood pressure) are more likely to have severe high blood pressure, requiring more medications to control it.
Researchers examined 835 Americans, who had psoriasis and hypertension. Their cases were compared with more than 2,400 people who had hypertension but not psoriasis. The patients with psoriasis were more likely to need the highest level of blood pressure treatment, which relies on a central-acting agent (also known as adrenergic inhibitors) that’s used in people whose high blood pressure can’t be controlled with conventional medicines. Hypertensive patients with psoriasis were also nearly 20 times more likely to be on four drugs or on a central-acting agent than hypertensive patients without psoriasis.
The findings were significant even after other risk factors associated with hypertension, including diabetes, smoking and high cholesterol, were taken into account. It is unlikely that drugs used to treat psoriasis were responsible for the increased severity of hypertension.
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