The risk of treated anxiety and treated depression among patients with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis treated with apremilast compared to biologics, DMARDs and corticosteroids: a cohort study in the United States MarketScan database.

Among patients with psoriasis, users of apremilast had similar rates of anxiety and depression as users of other non-corticosteroid systemic psoriasis treatments. Among PsA patients, users of apremilast had similar rates of depression and anxiety + depression compared with users of other systemic non-corticosteroid PsA drugs; however, the rate of anxiety was slightly higher.