Abstract
We thank Haroon, et al for their comments1. Their study demonstrated suboptimal performances of established cardiovascular (CV) risk scores in identifying asymptomatic coronary artery disease as confirmed by coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) among patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). The results were in line with our study based on carotid subclinical atherosclerosis2. However, they found that a multiplication factor of 1.5 accurately categorizes PsA patients as having a high risk of CV diseases, presumably based on the presence of coronary atherosclerosis. To address whether this also applies to our cohort of patients with PsA, we have performed posthoc … Address correspondence to Dr. L.S. Tam, Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong. E-mail: lstam{at}cuhk.edu.hk
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