insulin resistance and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) Archives

Abstract Number: 1797 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Insulin Resistance Is Not Associated with Increased Risk of Subclinical Atheromatosis in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus from Northern Spain
Leyre Riancho-Zarrabeitia¹, Alfonso Corrales², Nuria Vegas-Revenga¹, Lucía Dominguez-Casas¹, Javier Rueda-Gotor², Montserrat Santos-Gómez¹, Maria T. García-Unzueta³, Ricardo Blanco¹ and Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Gay¹, ¹Rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ²rheumatology, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL, Santander, Spain, ³Biochemistry, Hospital Universitario Marqués de Valdecilla. IDIVAL, Santander, Spain
Background/Purpose: Metabolic syndrome is a recently defined clustering of cardiovascular risk (CV) factors associated with insulin resistance (IR) and an increased risk of CV disease.…

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