Insulin resistance is an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis
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Insulin resistance is an independent risk factor for atherosclerosis in rheumatoid arthritis.
The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between insulin resistance (IR) and subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Carotid artery intima media thickness (IMT), using ultrasound evaluation, and other clinical and laboratory variables were investigated in 45 RA outpatients and in 48 controls with soft tissue disorders. IR was assayed by hom...
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Resistance to insulin action is a feature that accompanies certain diseases among which chronic inflammatory states like rheumatoid arthritis are included. What is, what its pathogenesis is, how it is measured, and what clinical and therapeutic implications have in rheumatoid arthritis patients is a topic not familiar to rheumatologists that is reviewed in this paper.
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1Division of Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, 39008 Santander, Spain 2Department of Rheumatology, Institute of Medicine, University of Debrecen Medical and Health Sciences Center, 98 Nagyerdei Street, Debrecen H-4032, Hungary 3Department of Rheumatology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands 4Research Unit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Diabetes and Vascular Disease Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1479-1641,1752-8984
DOI: 10.3132/dvdr.2007.031