JAMA Dermatol: Association of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution with Psoriasis Conditions

Figure 1.

In the case-crossover analysis, each patient served as its own control; the exposure of interest in the same group of patients was tracked longitudinally over two different periods

Table 1 Descriptive characteristics of patients with psoriasis who experienced flares included in case-crossover analysis

Table 2.

Abbreviations: AuC, area under the receiver operating curve; C6H6, benzene; CO, carbon monoxide; NO2, nitrogen dioxide; NOx, nitrogen oxides; PM10, coarse particulate matter (2.

Table 3.

Abbreviations: AuC, area under the curve; C6H6, benzene; CO; NO2, carbon monoxide; NO2, nitrogen dioxide; NOX, nitrogen oxides; PASI, psoriasis area and severity index; PM10, coarse particulate matter (2.

Figure 2.

Average concentrations for the first 60 days were assessed

In conclusion, short-term air pollution exposure was associated with increased psoriasis activity and the likelihood of psoriatic flares

Source: Bellinato F, Adami G, Vaienti S, Association Between Short-term Exposure to Environmental Air Pollution and Psoriasis Flare.