“In certain patients, psoriasis is a risk factor for heart attack comparable to diabetes,” says Joel M. Gelfand, MD, assistant professor of dermatology at the University of Pennsylvania. People with this skin condition can suffer from a heart attack because it is an autoimmune disease.
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