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Influence of serum vitamin D status on severe sarcopenia among female patients with rheumatoid arthritis: the KURAMA database
2021-07-13
Abstract excerpt
Sarcopenia is an age-related disease with an increased risk of mortality. It is emerging that low serum vitamin D (25(OH)D) affects the sarcopenic state in general, but in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), these associations are not understood although the prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency is high in RA. We conducted a cross-sectional study of older female outpatients from our cohort (KURAMA) database. We measured sk...
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- f99c85fe-b391-5363-8c46-2e68ec7b0ee5
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-697981/v1
