A comprehensive, tri-national, cross-sectional analysis of characteristics and impact of pruritus in psoriasis.

Background: Pruritus is prevalent in psoriasis but still many features of pruritus, its response to therapy and its burden in psoriasis remain to be better characterized.

Objective: To investigate characteristics and burden of pruritus in an international cohort of patients with psoriasis.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included a total of 634 patients and 246 controls from Germany, Poland and Russia.