SINGAPORE - Part-time marketeer Aileen Chan was diagnosed with psoriasis at the age of 46 in 2011. She had to stop going for body massages because the chronic disease is marked by itchy, red scaly patches on the skin.
Dr Colin Theng, the president of the Psoriasis Association of Singapore, said that while the association between psoriasis and metabolic syndrome is known, the prevalence of it here was only recently shown in a local study published during the circuit breaker period. Metabolic syndrome has a cluster of risk factors, including obesity, hypertension, dyslipidaemia and glucose intolerance. It is also a strong predictor of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke. The study had looked at 338 patients in Singapore, aged 18 to 69, who had sought help from late 2007 to early 2009 at the National Skin Centre.
Worldwide, approximately 125 million people have psoriasis, including American reality TV star Kim Kardashian and American country music star LeAnn Rimes.
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