ReviewCurrent allergy and asthma reports2015
Inflammation, adiposity, and atherogenic dyslipidemia in rheumatoid arthritis: is there a paradoxical relationship?
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- Serum lipid profile in systemic lupus erythematosus.Frontiers in immunology · 2024Pooled it
- Lipid management in rheumatoid arthritis: a position paper of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy of the European Society of Cardiology.European heart journal. Cardiovascular pharmacotherapy · 2020Guideline
- Associations of Atherogenic Lipid Ratios and Visceral Adiposity Indices with Cardiovascular Risk Scores in Rheumatoid Arthritis.Archives of rheumatology · 2026Article
- The Role of Selected Myokines in the Development of Cardiovascular Diseases, and Their Involvement in Developing Heart Failure in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
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- A study of lipid profile peculiarities and atherogenic index of plasma in patients younger than fifty years of age with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2025Article
- Exploring the association of serum prolactin with serum glucose levels and clinical findings in a cohort of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis.Advances in rheumatology (London, England) · 2024Observational
- Causal relationship between PCSK9 inhibitor and autoimmune diseases: a drug target Mendelian randomization study.Arthritis research & therapy · 2023Article
- Causal relationships between rheumatism and dyslipidemia: A two-sample Mendelian randomization study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2022Article
- Tripterygium wilfordii glycosides ameliorates collagen-induced arthritis and aberrant lipid metabolism in rats.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Article
- Medical Compliance of Fibrate and the Decreased Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Dyslipidemia-Related Diseases: A Population-Based Cohort Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Insights in the Role of Lipids, Oxidative Stress and Inflammation in Rheumatoid Arthritis Unveiled by New Trends in Lipidomic Investigations.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Albumin/Globulin Ratio as Yin-Yang in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Its Correlation to Inflamm-Aging Cytokines.Journal of inflammation research · 2021Article
- GlycA measured by NMR spectroscopy is associated with disease activity and cardiovascular disease risk in chronic inflammatory diseases.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2020Review
- Cardiovascular Risk Assessment and Therapeutic Implications in Rheumatoid Arthritis.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2020Review
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- Modelling disease risk for amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis in non-human primates using machine learning.Amyloid : the international journal of experimental and clinical investigation : the official journal of the International Society of Amyloidosis · 2019Article
- Perspective: The Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII)-Lessons Learned, Improvements Made, and Future Directions.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2019Article
- Hashimoto Thyroiditis and Dyslipidemia in Childhood: A Review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2019Review
- The changes of immunoglobulin G N-glycosylation in blood lipids and dyslipidaemia.Journal of translational medicine · 2018Observational
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Abstract
Dyslipidemia is highly prevalent in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and appears to be present very early in the RA disease process, in some studies even before a diagnosis of clinical RA has been made. The association between lipid measures and the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in RA appears to be paradoxical, whereby lower levels of total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C), and atherogenic ratios are associated with higher CVD risk. This may be due to the lipid-lowering effects of RA-related systemic inflammation. Therefore, standard CVD risk calculators have been shown to underperform in RA. Data also suggest that lipoprotein particle sizes and the apolipoprotein cargo of lipoproteins skew toward atherogenic dyslipidemia in RA and may contribute to the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis. Inflammatory burden in RA may also alter the anti-inflammatory and atheroprotective roles associated with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). Adipose tissue is quantitatively increased in RA patients compared with matched non-RA controls and may be more inflamed and metabolically dysfunctional compared with an otherwise similar non-RA patient. In vitro, animal, and a handful of non-RA human, studies suggest that inflamed, metabolically dysfunctional adipose tissue contributes directly to lower HDL-C levels. In turn, lower HDL-C that has been altered functionally by inflammation may lead to expanded adipose mass and further adipose dysfunction and inflammation. In the last part of this review, we speculate how the RA disease state may recapitulate these processes.
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