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Vitamin D receptor polymorphisms as tool for early screening of severe bone loss in women patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
European review for medical and pharmacological sciences - 1 Nov 2016
Di Spigna G, Del Puente A, Covelli B, Abete E, Varriale E, Salzano S, Postiglione L
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OBJECTIVE: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease that leads to local and systemic arthritis and bone loss. Exploring genetic markers of candidate genes in osteoporosis and inflammatory cytokine genes could be a useful tool for the early identification of bone loss and fracture risk in RA patients. The target of this study is the evaluation and correlation between of Single Nucleotide...
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