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The Association Between Obesity and Clinical Features of Psoriatic Arthritis: A Case-control Study.
The Journal of rheumatology - 1 Apr 2017
Eder Lihi, Abji Fatima, Rosen Cheryl F, Chandran Vinod, Gladman Dafna D
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OBJECTIVE: To assess whether obesity is associated with distinct psoriatic arthritis (PsA) features and whether it interacts with PsA HLA susceptibility alleles. METHODS: Patients with early PsA were compared with patients with psoriasis without arthritis (PsC). The primary predictor was the body mass index (BMI) at the first visit to the clinic. The clinical features across 3 BMI groups were compared by linear...
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