Vivek Anand Manivel

Feb 15, 2024 | ard.bmj.com | Eleftheria Pertsinidou |Saedis Saevarsdottir |Vivek Anand Manivel |Lars Klareskog

In early rheumatoid arthritis, anticitrullinated peptide antibodies associate with low number of affected joints and rheumatoid factor associates with systemic inflammation Statistics from Altmetric.com Request Permissions If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

Nov 27, 2023 | ard.bmj.com | Eleftheria Pertsinidou |Saedis Saevarsdottir |Vivek Anand Manivel |Lars Klareskog

DiscussionIn our study, presence of ACPA associated with lower number of swollen and tender joints in the RF-negative group, whereas presence of IgM RF associated with increased inflammatory markers, especially ESR, dependent on the co-occurrence of ACPA. In other words, in early RA, RF and ACPA associate with different individual DAS28 components and in opposite directions.