Fatigue severity in anti-nuclear antibody-positive individuals does not correlate with pro-inflammatory cytokine levels or predict imminent progression to symptomatic disease

Fatigue severity in anti-nuclear antibody-positive individuals does not correlate with pro-inflammatory cytokine levels or predict imminent progression to symptomatic disease

Abstract Background Fatigue is a common symptom of systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease (SARD). Patients with SARD have a protracted pre-clinical phase during which progressive immunologic derangements occur culminating in disease. In this study, we sought to determine when fatigue develops and whe...

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Main Authors: Waleed Hafiz, Rawad Nori, Ariana Bregasi, Babak Noamani, Dennisse Bonilla, Larissa Lisnevskaia, Earl Silverman, Arthur A. M. Bookman, Sindhu R. Johnson, Carolina Landolt-Marticorena, Joan Wither
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:Arthritis Research & Therapy
Subjects:
Systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease
Fatigue
Cytokines
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13075-019-2013-9

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