Current and early life weight and associations with mortality in rheumatoid arthritis.

CONCLUSIONS: The risk of obesity is substantially underestimated when epidemiologic methods do not account for long-term weight changes. Both obesity and weight loss are strongly associated with mortality risk in patients with RA.
PMID: 30719967 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology - February 7, 2019 Category: Rheumatology Tags: Clin Exp Rheumatol Source Type: research