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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Language: | en_US |
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2016
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2144/16819 |