{"id":322764,"date":"2024-08-26T08:50:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T06:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/you-have-to-stop-treating-psoriasis-as-just-a-skin-disease\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:26:59","slug":"you-have-to-stop-treating-psoriasis-as-just-a-skin-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/you-have-to-stop-treating-psoriasis-as-just-a-skin-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You have to stop treating psoriasis as just a skin disease&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Switzerland, psoriasis affects about 1 to 3 percent of the population&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>[1]<\/strong><strong>. About one in three psoriasis patients also suffers from psoriatic arthritis (PsA), a chronic inflammatory systemic disease that can manifest itself in arthritis, enthesitis, and dactylitis, among other things&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>[2, 3]<\/strong><strong>. If left untreated, PsA can result in joint destruction and even disability&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>[2]<\/strong><strong>. In the following interview, dermatologist Prof. Thomas K\u00fcndig and rheumatologist Prof. Diego Kyburz discuss the interdisciplinary management of this complex disease and elaborate on two&nbsp;current therapeutic options&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>[4, 5]<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"pmpro\"><div class=\"pmpro_card pmpro_content_message\"><div class=\"pmpro_card_content\">Dieser Inhalt ist nur f\u00fcr Benutzer der Gruppe: Medizinische Fachperson zug\u00e4nglich <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/my-account\/packages\/\">Jetzt beitreten<\/a><\/div><div class=\"pmpro_card_actions pmpro_font-medium\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/log-in\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmedizinonline.com%2Fen%2Fyou-have-to-stop-treating-psoriasis-as-just-a-skin-disease%2F\">Log in here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Switzerland, psoriasis affects about 1 to 3 percent of the population&nbsp;[1]. About one in three psoriasis patients also suffers from psoriatic arthritis (PsA), a chronic inflammatory systemic disease that&#8230;&hellip;... <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro\"><div class=\"pmpro_card pmpro_content_message\"><div class=\"pmpro_card_content\">Dieser Inhalt ist nur f\u00fcr Benutzer der Gruppe: Medizinische Fachperson zug\u00e4nglich <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/my-account\/packages\/\">Jetzt beitreten<\/a><\/div><div class=\"pmpro_card_actions pmpro_font-medium\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/log-in\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmedizinonline.com%2Fen%2Fyou-have-to-stop-treating-psoriasis-as-just-a-skin-disease%2F\">Log in here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":124915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","cat_1_feature_home_top":false,"cat_2_editor_pick":false,"csco_eyebrow_text":"Interview with Prof. Thomas K\u00fcndig (USZ) and Prof. Diego Kyburz (USB)","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"category":[11548,11340,11516,11500,11323,11480],"tags":[11648,11686],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":["post-322764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rx-en","category-dermatology-and-venereology","category-interviews-en","category-news-en","category-partner-content-en","category-rheumatology","tag-atopic-dermatitis-and-psoriasis-news","tag-inflammatory-rheumatic-diseases-facts-and-experiences","pmpro-level-required","pmpro-level-1","pmpro-no-access"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 19:00:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":{"fr_FR":{"locale":"fr_FR","id":19964,"slug":"il-faut-arreter-de-traiter-le-psoriasis-comme-une-simple-maladie-de-peau","post_title":"\u00abIl faut arr\u00eater de traiter le psoriasis comme une simple maladie de peau\u00bb","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/fr\/?p=19964"},"it_IT":{"locale":"it_IT","id":322766,"slug":"bisogna-smettere-di-trattare-la-psoriasi-solo-come-una-malattia-della-pelle","post_title":"\"Bisogna smettere di trattare la psoriasi solo come una malattia della pelle\".","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/it\/bisogna-smettere-di-trattare-la-psoriasi-solo-come-una-malattia-della-pelle\/"},"pt_PT":{"locale":"pt_PT","id":322769,"slug":"e-preciso-parar-de-tratar-a-psoriase-apenas-como-uma-doenca-de-pele","post_title":"\"\u00c9 preciso parar de tratar a psor\u00edase apenas como uma doen\u00e7a de pele\".","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/pt-pt\/e-preciso-parar-de-tratar-a-psoriase-apenas-como-uma-doenca-de-pele\/"},"es_ES":{"locale":"es_ES","id":322765,"slug":"hay-que-dejar-de-tratar-la-psoriasis-unicamente-como-una-enfermedad-cutanea","post_title":"\"Hay que dejar de tratar la psoriasis \u00fanicamente como una enfermedad cut\u00e1nea\".","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/es\/hay-que-dejar-de-tratar-la-psoriasis-unicamente-como-una-enfermedad-cutanea\/"}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560085,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322764\/revisions\/560085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=322764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322764"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=322764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}