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Having PsA may increase yourrisk of diabetes，根据最近的研究。加拿大研究人员对1978年1月至2014年11月间在一家大型专业诊所就诊的1305名PsA患者进行了研究，发现他们患糖尿病的风险比普通人群高出43%。PsA活性最高的人群患病风险最大，这表明炎症可能是这两种疾病的共同线索。
Source:The Journal of Rheumatology, published online February 2017
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Keep up-to-date on the latestpsoriatic arthritis (PsA)research with our brief research summaries.
Certain nail features can help doctors distinguish betweenpsoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and possibly lead to earlier or improved treatment for PsA, a new study suggests. In the analysis of 1,092 patients with either PsA or psoriasis only, researchers found that nail changes were more common among those with PsA than psoriasis only. Transverse (side-to-side) grooves, splinter hemorrhages (small broken blood vessels under the nails) and onycholysis (separation of the nail from the nail bed) were associated with arthritis. Transverse grooves were significantly associated with arthritis in the joint closest to the nail and enthesitis, inflammation where the tendons and ligaments insert into the bone.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, November 2017
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