Serum levels of C-peptide are associated with coronary artery calcification in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

Rheumatology International

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1541-1547

  Burgmaier, Mathias ^a   Hoppe, Sophia ^a   Krüger, Thilo ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^b   Ketteler, Markus ^c   Reith, Sebastian ^a   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Marx, Nikolaus ^a   Brandenburg, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c KLINIKUM COBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; C peptide; Coronary artery calcification; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

ADIPONECTIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C PEPTIDE; CALCIUM; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; PHOSPHATE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SEX; SMOKING; AGED; BLOOD; CALCINOSIS; COMPLICATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; C-PEPTIDE; CALCINOSIS; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84939466721     PISSN: 01728172     EISSN: 1437160X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00296-015-3244-y     Document Type: Article

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