Circulating Cytokine Profiles and Their Relationships with Autoantibodies, Acute Phase Reactants, and Disease Activity in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

• Main Authors: Pieter W. A. Meyer (Author), Bridget Hodkinson (Author), Mahmood Ally (Author), Eustasius Musenge (Author), Ahmed A. Wadee (Author), Heidi Fickl (Author), Mohammed Tikly (Author), Ronald Anderson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Our objective was to analyse the relationship between circulating cytokines, autoantibodies, acute phase reactants, and disease activity in DMARDs-naïve rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients (n=140). All cytokines were significantly higher in the RA cohort than in healthy controls. Moderate-to-strong...