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Background/Aims: Psoriatic arthritis with peripheral and axial involvement; It is a heterogeneous disease that can cause enthesitis, dactylitis, and nail and skin involvement. The persistence of inflammation in psoriasis leads to comorbidities such as psoriatic arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic syndrome. Our study aimed to identify subclinical atherosclerosis in psoriatic arthritis patients without a known risk factor and to prevent possible morbidity and mortality in patients. Methods: Thirty-three patients with psoriatic arthritis and twenty-five healthy control groups were included in our study. Diabetes mellitus, hypertension, coronary artery disease, diagnosis of hyperlipidemia, body mass index above 30, and smoking were determined as exclusion criteria. The age, gender, duration of the disease, medical treatment used for the disease, high-density lipoprotein, low-density lipoprotein, triglyceride, and total cholesterol values, monocyte-lymphocyte ratio, carotid intima-media thickness measurement results obtained by carotid doppler ultrasonography imaging were recorded. Results: A comparison was made between the study and control groups in terms of age, triglyceride, high-density lipoprotein, low-density lipoprotein, and monocyte-lymphocyte ratio, and no statistically significant difference was observed. Monocyte and lymphocyte levels were significantly higher in the study group (p

Objective:The aims of this study are to compare bone mineral densitometry and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in postmenopausal women diagnosed with osteoporosis and the investigation of the effectiveness of MRI in the diagnosis of osteoporosis.Materials and Methods:Forty female patients, 50 years of age or older who underwent lumbar MRI examination and were diagnosed with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) osteoporosis were included in our study. Forty healthy women aged 20-29 years with lumbar MRI examinations were included in the control group. On sagittal T1-weighted (T1W) images of individuals in the patient and control groups signalto- noise ratio (SNR) was measured from L1-L4 vertebrae. To facilitate the diagnosis of osteoporosis, a quantitative score called the M-score was obtained using SNR values. The relationship between DEXA and the obtained SNR and M-score values were investigated.Results:In the patient group, median SNR values of L1, L2, L3, L4 vertebrae obtained from T1-weighted sequence was 57.49 (25.18-182.48), and they were 24.90 (7.40-41.70) in the control group. Receiver operating characteristics analysis was performed for L1, L2, L3, L4 vertebrae. The area under the curve for the mean value of L1-L4 vertebra was found to be 0.966 (p0.05) and M score-DEXA (p>0.05).Conclusion:It has been concluded that L1-L4 vertebral SNR measurement in T1-weighted sequence in lumbar MRI can be used to distinguish osteoporosis patients from normal individuals. Thus, osteoporosis can be diagnosed without X-ray exposure.