Cigarette smoking associates with body weight and muscle mass of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional, observational study

INTRODUCTION: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with altered metabolism leading to muscle wasting. In the general population, cigarette smoking is known to affect body composition by reducing fat and inhibiting muscle synthesis. Even though smoking has been implicated in the pathophysiology an...

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Autori principali: Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou, Antonios, Metsios, Giorgos S, Panoulas, Vasileios F, Douglas, Karen MJ, Nevill, Alan M, Jamurtas, Athanasios Z, Kita, Marina, Koutedakis, Yiannis, Kitas, George D
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: BioMed Central 2008
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2483449/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18492239
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/ar2429
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