Redefining overweight and obesity in rheumatoid arthritis patients

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1316-1321

  Stavropoulos Kalinoglou, Antonios ^a,b   Metsios, Giorgos S ^a,b   Koutedakis, Yiannis ^b,c   Nevill, Alan M ^b   Douglas, Karen M ^a   Jamurtas, Athanasios ^c   Veldhuijzen Van Zanten, Jet J C S ^d   Labib, Mourad ^a   Kitas, George D ^a,b  

^a RUSSELLS HALL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGE FACTORS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OVERWEIGHT; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34548204927     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.2006.060319     Document Type: Article

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