Serum Osteoprotegerin is Increased and Independently Associated with Coronary-Artery Atherosclerosis in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Osteoprotegerin (OPG), a soluble decoy receptor for receptor activator of nuclear factor B ligand, is implicated in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have inflammation and increased atherosclerosis. We examined the hypothesis that OPG concentrations are inc...

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Auteurs principaux: Asanuma, Yu, Chung, Cecilia P., Oeser, Annette, Solus, Joseph F., Avalos, Ingrid, Gebretsadik, Tebeb, Shintani, Ayumi, Raggi, Paolo, Sokka, Tuulikki, Pincus, Theodore, Stein, C. Michael
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: 2007
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2174431/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17570371
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.04.049
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