Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa

Abstract

We read with great interest the article by Pascual et al., in which subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) was assessed using carotid ultrasound. They found a higher prevalence of subclinical atherosclerosis in HS patients (30.7%) compared with controls (16.1%) and the association was significant in patients 40 years and older. Furthermore, traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk factors like hypertension (41.9%), diabetes mellitus (22.6%), and metabolic syndrome (38.7%) along with elevated systemic inflammatory markers including high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (Hs-CRP) (61.1%), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) (46.8%), and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) (59.7%) were more common in patients with HS (1).

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