5 Key Takeaways

• 1

  Women with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) during pregnancy have a higher risk of pre-eclampsia compared to population controls.

• 2

  Pre-eclampsia occurred in 8.8% of women with active PsA, while the rate was 2.6% in controls.

• 3

  Gestational hypertension was more common in women with active PsA at 5.9%, compared to 1.7% in controls.

• 4

  Women with inactive PsA had pre-eclampsia and gestational hypertension rates similar to controls.

• 5

  The study analyzed 109 singleton pregnancies linked to 575,798 controls, assessing disease activity with the Disease Activity Score in 28 joints.