High prevalence of metabolic syndrome in antisynthetase syndrome.

CONCLUSIONS: The prevalence of MetS was high in ASS patients that also had serum resistin and low leptin levels. As also identified in other idiopathic inflammatory myopathies, MetS in ASS is more prevalent in older patients.
PMID: 29716676 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology - May 3, 2018 Category: Rheumatology Tags: Clin Exp Rheumatol Source Type: research