Vitamin D insufficiency prevalent among psoriatic arthritis suffers

Monday, July 11, 2011 - 03:31 in Health & Medicine

New research reports a high prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency among patients with psoriatic arthritis. Seasonal variation in vitamin D levels was not observed in patients in southern or northern locations. The findings published today in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), also show no association between disease activity and vitamin D level.

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