Abstract

In adult patients with rheumatoid arthritis there is large body of evidence supporting the presence of insulin resistance (IR) mainly linked to the underlying inflammation; severity and duration of the disease influence insulin sensitivity and increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Exclusion criteria included other autoimmune diseases or chronic inflammatory diseases, any medication that alters insulin action, family history of diabetes mellitus, obesity (BMI >95° percentile for age and sex) and systemic onset JIA.

Details

Title
Preliminary data on insulin sensitivity in non-obese prepubertal children affected by juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Author
Luciana, Breda; Stefania, Gaspari; Sara, De Sanctis; Antonella, Draghessi; Alessandra, Savino; Alessandra, Scardapane; Angelika, Mohn; Francesco, Chiarelli
First page
P170
Publication year
2011
Publication date
2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
1546-0096
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1546-0096-9-S1-P170
ProQuest document ID
902267866
Copyright
© 2011 Luciana et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.