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Rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility genes associate with lipid levels in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
Annals of the rheumatic diseases - 1 Jun 2011
Toms Tracey E, Panoulas Vasileios F, Smith Jacqueline P, Douglas Karen M J, Metsios Giorgos S, Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou Antonios, Kitas George D
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INTRODUCTION: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a systemic inflammatory disease with complex genetic aetiology, associates with excess cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Dyslipidaemia, a major cardiovascular risk factor has been reported to predate the onset of RA, thus suggesting a potential genetic link between the two conditions. The authors assessed whether RA susceptibility genes associate with the presence of...
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