title: Dietary behaviour in psoriatic patients.
abstract: Two hundred and nineteen psoriatic in-patients and 747 non-psoriatic subjects were asked to report in a semiquantitative, self-administered questionnaire on the frequency of consumption of different foodstuffs and cooking and seasoning fats and the daily intake of alcohol (glasses/day) and coffee (cups/day). According to this a definite score was assigned to each of the 46 food items, which were divided into five groups: carbohydrates (CH), low-fat foods (LFF), high-fat foods (HFF), saturated fats (SF) and polyunsaturated fats (PUF) and the alcohol consumption in grams/day was calculated. The mean scores for each food group and the means of alcohol (grams/day) and coffee (cups/day) intake were compared in the two groups, after age-adjustment through ANOCOVA. Psoriatic patients showed higher scores for HFF and SF in males and for CH, HFF, SF and PUF in females and a higher intake of alcohol in both sexes. These dietary habits could explain the higher prevalence of metabolic abnormalities in psoriatic patients.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Medica 1, Universita' di Padova, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zamboni
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zanetti
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Grosso
authors.forename: G B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Ambrosio
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gozzetti
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Peserico
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D004041:Dietary Fats; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011565:Psoriasis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000523:psychology; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D004041:Dietary Fats