Abstracts tagged "Obesity and rheumatic disease"

Abstract Number: 1267 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
The Association between Clinically Suspect Arthralgia and Adipokines in Obese Patients
Taskin Senturk¹, Reyhan Kose¹, Gokhan Sargin¹, Songul Cildag², Mustafa Unubol³, Burçin İrem Abas⁴ and Cigdem Yenisey⁴, ¹Rheumatology, Adnan Menderes University Medical School, Aydin, Turkey, ²Allergy and Immunology, Adnan Menderes University Medical School, Aydin, Turkey, ³Endocrinology and Metabolism, Adnan Menderes University Medical School, Aydin, Turkey, ⁴Biochemistry, Adnan Menderes University Medical School, Aydin, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Obesity is a moderate low-grade chronic inflammatory condition. Also, it has been reported to be a risk factor for inflammatory rheumatic diseases, seronegative inflammatory…
Abstract Number: 1703 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2015
Obesity Is Related with Active State in Psoriatic Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis but Not Ankylosing Spondylitis at Real Life Biological Cohort
Umut Kalyoncu, Levent Kilic, Abdulsamet Erden, Alper Sari, Berkan Armagan, Omer Karadag, Ali Akdogan, Sule Apras Bilgen and Ihsan Ertenli, Rheumatology, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey
Background/Purpose: Adipose tissue and adipokines are linked to inflammation. The relationship of obesity to rheumatologic disease activity is complex and recent studies demonstrate a connection…
Abstract Number: 1842 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2013
Pathophysiological Effects Of Free Fatty Acids On Key Cells Of Arthritis
Klaus W. Frommer¹, Andreas Schäffler², Stefan Rehart³, Angela Lehr⁴, Ulf Müller-Ladner¹ and Elena Neumann⁵, ¹Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Kerckhoff-Klinik, Bad Nauheim, Germany, ²Department of Internal Medicine III, Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany, ³Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Markus-Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany, ⁴Dept Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Markus-Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine and Rheumatology, Justus-Liebig-University of Gießen, Kerckhoff-Klinik, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Background/Purpose: Although obesity, a known risk factor for arthritic diseases, increases mechanical stress on joints, it appears not to be the only factor being responsible…