Abstracts tagged "Rheumatoid Factor and bone density"

Abstract Number: 3 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
The Presence of Rheumatoid Factor Is Associated with Lower Bone Mass in Korean Health Screening Male Subjects without Clinically Apparent Arthritis
Jiwon Hwang¹, Joong Kyong Ahn², Yeonghee Eun³, Hyemin Jeong³, Eun-Jung Park⁴, Hyungjin Kim³, Jaejoon Lee³, Eun-Mi Koh³ and Hoon-Suk Cha⁵, ¹Department of Medicine, National Police Hospital, Seoul, Korea, The Republic of, ²Department of Medicine, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, ³Department of Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea, ⁴Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Jeju National University Hospital, Jeju University School of Medicine, Jeju, South Korea, ⁵Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Background/Purpose: Close relationship between the immune and skeletal systems has been recognized through the bone loss in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Rheumatoid factor (RF) is present…