New Delhi: People with psoriasis — a skin condition — often have invisible inflammation in the small intestine that increases their propensity for ‘leaky gut’, according to a research Monday.
The gut inflammation may explain why psoriasis patients often have gastrointestinal problems and are more prone to developing Crohn’s disease, said the team at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Psoriasis is a hereditary, chronic skin condition that can also result in inflammation of the joints. Chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), especially Crohn’s disease, are more common in patients with psoriasis than in the rest of the population.
The small study involved 18 patients with psoriasis and 15 healthy controls as subjects. None of the participants had been diagnosed with gastrointestinal diseases. Samples were taken…