Increased serum concentrations of il-1 beta, il-21 and th17 cells in overweight patients with rheumatoid arthritis

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• who: Hirofumi Shoda from the We recruited , patients with RA between April , and March, who fulfilled the , American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria [8], and , HDsThe comparison of age, sex distribution, and BMI between patients with RA and HDs are indicated in Additional file, : Table, . All the donors were without active infection or malignancy. The following clinical data were collected: age, sex, disease duration, BMI, methotrexate (MTX) usage, biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (bDMARD) usage, rheumatoid factor (RF) titer, anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) antibody titer, Disease Activity Score , jointerythrocyte sedimentation rate . . .
  

   

  

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