Obesity, weight change and disease activity measures in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

BACKGROUND: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that causes inflammatory polyarthritis, typically of the small joints. Obesity, a serious global epidemic, has been shown to increase systemic inflammatory biomarkers, several of which are related to RA pathophysiology. Associations h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kreps, David Joseph
Language:en_US
Published: 2016
Subjects:
BMI
RA
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/16819