Psoriasis drug found to reduce aortic vascular inflammation
European Pharmaceutical Review | February 19, 2018
Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, led a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled study and found patients who took the drug ustekinumab had a 19 percent improvement in aortic inflammation, as measured and confirmed by imaging, when compared to the placebo group. Dr Joel M. Gelfand, a Professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn and the study’s first author.