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From: Prevalence, incidence and characteristics of the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in a cohort of Mexican Mestizo early rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with conventional disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs: the complex relationship between MetS and disease activity

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Comparison of disease activity-related outcomes after the index date between cases and controls. Comparison of disease activity-related outcomes after the index date, between rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with incidental metabolic syndrome (Mets; cases) and their matched controls (RA patients who did not develop incidental MetS up to last follow-up). (A) Median (range) cumulative disease activity score evaluated in 28 joints after the index date in RA patients who developed incidental MetS and their controls. (B) Distribution (n (%)) of patients and controls who achieved or maintained remission and of patients and controls with disease flare or who never achieved remission, from the index date up to last follow-up.

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Arthritis Research & Therapy

ISSN: 1478-6362

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