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structure encroaching at least 0.5 mm into the arterial lumen or having a thickness greater than 50% of the surrounding intima-media thickness. Table I exhibits the anthropometric, clinical, and biochemical data of participants. To our best knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate the presence of femoral atherosclerotic plaques as a screening test for atherosclerosis in patients with psoriasis. The prevalence of femoral plaques but not carotid plaques was significantly higher in the patients with psoriasis than in age-, sex-, and body mass indexematched controls (P\ .006), whereas the prevalence of femoral plaques among the patients was 2-fold higher than that of carotid plaques (P\ .008) (Fig 1). According to the present findings, ultrasound study of femoral arteries is more useful than the study of carotid arteries to identify atherosclerosis in patients with psoriasis.