Lipoprotein abnormalities are usually observed in chronic inflammatory conditions like rheumatoid arthritis. The aim of the study is to determine the lipoprotein abnormalities in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 52 patients of rheumatoid arthritis of varying age groups are choosen for this study and 37 healthy people were taken for the control. The estimation of triglycerides done by method ...

s and/or oral presentations presented at American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 2010, 2011 and 2012: 1. Pickens SR, Volin MV, Mandelin II AM, Shahrara S. Local expression of IL-27 ameliorate collagen induced arthritis. Arthritis Rheum 714: S298, 2010. Oral presentation 2. Pickens SR, Volin MV, Pope RM, Mandelin II AM, Shahrara S. Characterization of CCR7 and its ligands CCL19 and CCL21 in rheum...

Rheumatoid arthritis is a multistep disorder associated with autoimmune features of yet unknown etiology. Implication of viruses such as Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis has been suspected on the basis of several indirect observations, but thus far, a direct link between EBV and rheumatoid arthritis has not been provided. Here we show that a large fraction of T cell...

Lipoprotein abnormalities are usually observed in chronic inflammatory conditions like rheumatoid arthritis. The aim of the study is to determine the lipoprotein abnormalities in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 52 patients of rheumatoid arthritis of varying age groups are choosen for this study and 37 healthy people were taken for the control. The estimation of triglycerides done by method ...

OBJECTIVE To obtain information on the incidence of rheumatoid arthritis and on its recent trends in Finland. METHODS The study covered those subjects entitled to receive specially reimbursed medication for rheumatoid arthritis under the nationwide sickness insurance scheme in five out of 21 central hospital districts in Finland (population basis about one million adults) during three years: ...

DT. Factors predicting response to treatment in rheumatoid arthritis: the importance of disease duration. Arthritis Rheum 2000;43:22–9. 15 Kroot EJ, van Leeuwen MA, van Rijswijk MH, Prevoo ML et al. No increased mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: up to 10 years of follow up from disease onset. Ann Rheum Dis 2000;59:954–8. 16 Nell VP, Machold KP, Eberl G, Stamm TA et al. Benefit of...

Cardiac necrobiotic lesions resembling rheumatoid granulomas were discovered in 2 patients without evidence of arthritis. Evidence from the literature indicates that pulmonary and subcutaneous nodules may occur before arthritis or before the appearance of the rheumatoid factor, and that cardiac lesions may occur early in the course of rheumatoid disease. Even in the absence of obvious arthritis...

background: the aim of this study was to analyze the effects of thoron and thermal treatment for aging-related diseases in humans. materials and methods: all subjects inhaled thoron with a high concentration (about 4900 bq/m3) for 2 weeks. blood pressures were measured and blood samples were collected after each treatment 1, 2 and 3 weeks after the first treatment. results: the α-atrial natriur...

background rheumatoid arthritis (ra) is the most common chronic inflammatory disease of unknown etiology. in this regard, the role of bacterial superantigens (as an effective agent) were considered. objectives this study aimed to assess staphylococcal enterotoxin e in the blood of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. patients and methods a total of 83 blood samples of patients with ra were studi...