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Abnormal body composition phenotypes in older rheumatoid arthritis patients: association with disease characteristics and pharmacotherapies.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 15 Jun 2008
Giles Jon T, Ling Shari M, Ferrucci Luigi, Bartlett Susan J, Andersen Ross E, Towns Marilyn, Muller Denis, Fontaine Kevin R, Bathon Joan M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To compare measures of body fat and lean mass and the prevalence of abnormal body composition phenotypes (sarcopenia, overfat, and sarcopenic obesity) in men and women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) versus matched controls, and to explore the disease-related predictors of abnormal body composition in patients with RA. METHODS: A total of 189 men and women with RA and 189 age-, sex-, and race-matched...
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