Associations Between Psoriasis and Endocrine Diagnoses in a Tertiary-Center Electronic Health Record Database: A Cross-Sectional Study

Purpose

Psoriasis is associated with systemic comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease. The purpose of this study is to assess whether patients with psoriasis are more likely to also have endocrine disorders. Patients and methods: Using the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Synthetic Derivative, a de-identified database of more than 3.4 million patients, a cross-sectional study was conducted. PheWAS codes were used to identify patients with specific diagnoses.