What is your approach to using apremilast for psoriatic arthritis in patients with history of depression?
Answer from: at Academic Institution
Depression is a common comorbidity of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis (20% at least mild and 14% at least moderate in a recent meta analysis). Depression is a known but relatively infrequent side effect of apremilast (<1.8% in clinical trials). It is important to screen for depression in all pa...