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The dose-related increases in zoster risk reported by included studies is in keeping with guideline development reviews, which have identified that higher doses and longer treatment duration confer a greater risk of serious infection [90, 91]
However, many research studies and anecdotal reports have guided informal best practices
Moisturizers The American Academy of Dermatology has called the use of unmedicated topical moisturizers an internationally accepted standard adjunctive therapeutic approach to the treatment of psoriasis . In fact, in controlled trials of corticosteroid topical treatments, in which placebo is essentially an unmedicated moisturizer, placebo response rates of up to 47% have been found, suggesting moisturizers alone have a beneficial effect in psoriasis (Menter 2009)