Clinical significance of metabolic syndrome and carotid intima-media thickness in Behҫet’s disease patients: Relation to disease activity

Aim of the work: The aim of the present work was to assess the effect of metabolic syndrome (MetS) co-morbidity and the carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) in Behçet’s disease (BD) patients and to study their relation to clinical manifestations and disease activity. Patients and methods: Thirty-ei...

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Main Authors: Iman El-Gazzar, Al-Hussein El-Dakrony, Safaa Sayed, Hussein El-Fishawy, Hanan Fathi, Mohamed Shaaban, Rehab Abdel Rahman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-07-01
Series:Egyptian Rheumatologist
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110116416300850