Body composition of rheumatoid arthritis patients in the City of Cape Town, South Africa

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 467-476

  Lombard, L A ^a,b   Du Plessis, L M ^a   Visser, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

^b EVIDERA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Body composition; Nutritional status; Obesity; Rheumatoid arthritis; Rheumatoid cachexia

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; DISEASE MODIFYING ANTIRHEUMATIC DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CACHEXIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAT MASS; FEMALE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; SOUTH AFRICA; UNDERWEIGHT; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT; AGED; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CACHEXIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; SOUTH AFRICA; THINNESS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84898865644     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-013-2414-0     Document Type: Article

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