background: anti-ccp is a test commonly used for the diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis. the aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic values of accp compared to anti-mcv in rheumatoid arthritis patients in north of iran. methods: the serum samples of 150 ra patients and 75 controls, with the mean age of 49.6+11.8 and 48.8+12 years respectively, were tested using the commercially availab...

background: patients with rheumatoid arthritis (ra) suffer from wide ranges of autoimmune reactions in joints. the mechanism of which is generally unknown and maybe associated with treg deregulation. objective: to compare the frequency of ntregs in peripheral blood of patients with active rheumatoid disease with healthy individuals. methods: twenty five newly diagnosed patients with active ra d...

the purpose of this study was to investigate any association between iga deficiency (igad) and juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (jra) among iranian children. this case-control study was carried out on 83 children who were diagnosed as jra according to american college of rheumatology (acr) criteria; patients were admitted at the rheumatology clinic of children's medical center, (tehran). serum imm...

Background: Obesity is one of the causes of onset and exacerbation of rheumatoid arthritis. However, limited studies have examined the association between body composition and severity of disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between severity of rheumatoid arthritis with various types of obesity and the comparison of anthropometric indices between patients with rheumato...

introduction: some of the studies have shown that ra (rheumatoid arthritis) may cause hearing disorders. these disorders can result in problems later in life, so survey of correlation between rheumatoid arthritis and hearing disorders is important . methods: this was a case-control study which has done from december 2004 to august 2006 at shaheed sadoughi hospital in yazd. in this study, 50 rhe...

background: exposure to heavy metals in development of many diseases has been investigated previously, specially created by oxidative stress. the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is still not fully understood but oxidative stress created by heavy metals may have role in development of ra. the aim of present study was to compare serum level of heavy metals in ra and healthy control individu...

ra (rheumatoid arthritis) is a chronic multisystem disease with a variety of systemic manifestations. one of these manifestations, is hearing disorder, so study of the relation between ra and hearing disorders is seem important. this was a case-control study which has done from december 2004 to august 2006. this study compared 50 patients with ra, with age, sex and job-matched as control. audio...