Youngsters who have psoriasis condition have a great chance of developing psoriatic arthritis if they are obese, as per the latest study.

This finding was revealed by Razieh Soltani-Arabshahi, M. D., of the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, along with his teammates and was revealed that the body mass index (BMI) at an age of 18 was more prone to psoriatic arthritis.

The factors responsible for the condition involved youth, female gender, large body surface areas are few of the factors that caused psoriasis. In addition to this a few of the facts suggest that "the obese group having an earlier onset of psoriatic arthritis, followed by the overweight group and finally the normal BMI group."

Alexis Ogdie, M. D., and Joel M. Gelfand, M. D., M. S. C. E, of the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia stated that in order to diagnose the case of patients it is vital to lookout for the various epidemiologic approaches.

At the same time the identification of risk factors for psoriatic arthritis is the key to the betterment of the condition.