作者: Mehmet Aydogan , Sevket Balta , Omer Kurt , Hakan Sarlak , Seyfettin Gumus
DOI: 10.1136/ANNRHEUMDIS-2013-203768
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摘要: We read the article ‘'N-terminal pro-brain-type natriuretic peptide (NT-pro-BNP) and mortality risk in early inflammatory polyarthritis (IP): results from Norfolk Arthritis Registry (NOAR)’’ by Mirjafari et al 1 with interest. The authors aimed to measure serum NT-pro-BNP levels a large, well-characterised inception cohort of patients IP examine baseline association disease phenotype, clinical cardiovascular (CVD) markers subclinical atherosclerosis surrogates. They concluded that patients, elevated is related Health Assessment Questionnaire …