National Psoriasis Foundation

The National Psoriasis Foundation (NPF) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to drive efforts to cure psoriatic disease and improve the lives of those affected.

Founded in 1967 from a tiny classified ad in a Portland, Oregon, newspaper, NPF has evolved to become the leading patient advocacy group for the more than 8 million Americans living with psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

Psoriasis affects more than 3% of the US adult population. That is more than 7.5 million US adults.

Psoriasis is likely to be underdiagnosed among African-Americans and other individuals with skin of color due to differences in clinical presentation.

Patients with psoriasis incur annual health care costs that are significantly greater than those of the general population and may amount to $135 billion annually (2013, U.S. $). In the United States, the economic burden of psoriasis is substantial because this disease results in considerable negative physical, psychiatric, and social consequences.