Both animal models and human observational and genetic studies have shown that immune
and inflammatory mechanisms play a key role in hypertension and its complications. We …

The risk of cardiovascular disease is increased in patients with rheumatoid arthritis
compared with the general population owing to the influence of traditional and non …

Rheumatoid arthritis is a common systemic and autoimmune disease characterized by
symmetrical and inflammatory destruction of distal joints. Its primary pathological characters …

Adipose tissue (AT) inflammation contributes to systemic insulin resistance. In obesity and
type 2 diabetes (T2D), retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4), the major retinol carrier in serum, is …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by chronic
synovial inflammation and finally leads to variable degrees of bone and cartilage erosion …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by erosive arthritis,
which can involve multiple systems. Patients with RA may have a variety of comorbidities …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), one of the most common of the chronic inflammatory autoimmune
diseases (CIADs), is recognized as an independent cardiovascular risk factor. Traditional …

Objective To investigate the rate of incident diabetes mellitus (DM) in patients with
rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and the impact of disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) …

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been associated with endothelial dysfunction, a
pathophysiological feature of atherosclerosis. Our aim was to determine whether TNF-α …

Objective In patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), insulin resistance (IR), a component of
the metabolic syndrome, is closely linked to the systemic inflammation induced by …