| Evetsm 2005-04-05, 6:03 pm |
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Apologies if this has been covered before.
Anyone on the cholesterol lowering Statin drugs notice any improvement
in their psoriasis ? They may help , perhaps not becuase they lower
cholesterol, but that they have antiinflammatory properties,
specifically they lower TNF by around 50%, among other cytokines, not
least C-reactive protein. I guess it is now accepted that TNF is a
causative cytokine in psoriasis since Enbrel specifically targets this.
In the UK one of the statins are now available OTC. They are very
cheap.
http://bmc.ub.uni-potsdam.de/cvm-1-3-150/
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