Abstract
Psoriasis can cause patients to have an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, including hypertension. Many psoriasis patients being treated for hypertension have had adverse reactions to the antihypertensive drugs, causing their psoriasis to return. In some patients without known psoriasis, hypertension medications even brought about new instances of psoriasis. In this paper, we review the literature describing cases of reactions (mainly negative] in psoriasis patients taking antihypertensive medications. We examine different classes of hypertension medications, including ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, and calcium channel blockers. Since there have been so many reported incidents, physicians using antihypertensive drugs for patients with psoriasis should consider the implications of using each type of drug, and should use this information to prescribe a less-reactive drug type if possible.
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