Autoimmune Disease Has a Wide-ranging, Complex Impact on Work Productivity
A cross-sectional study compared work productivity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, Crohn’s disease, psoriasis, and psoriatic arthritis/spondyloarthritis and found that even patients in remission or with mild disease activity report some burden of presenteeism, work productivity loss, or activity impairment.
Psoriasis: One Treatment Failure May Overshadow a Subsequent Successful One
South Korean researchers found that adult patients who have failed a prior biologic therapy for their psoriasis perceive their quality of life to be significantly lower than those who had not.