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ArticleJournal of bone and mineral metabolism2017

Vitamin K homologs as potential biomarkers for disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

Hani M Khojah, Sameh Ahmed, Mahran S Abdel-Rahman, Khaled M Alkhalil, Al-Badr Hamza

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Article in Journal of bone and mineral metabolism, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Hani M KhojahDepartment of Clinical and Hospital Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Taibah University, Al Madinah AlMunawarah, Saudi Arabia. hkhojah@taibahu.edu.sa.
Sameh AhmedDepartment of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Taibah University, Al Madinah AlMunawarah, Saudi Arabia.
Mahran S Abdel-RahmanDepartment of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Taibah University, Al Madinah AlMunawarah, Saudi Arabia.
Khaled M AlkhalilDepartment of Rheumatology, King Fahd Hospital, Al Madinah AlMunawarah, Saudi Arabia.
Al-Badr HamzaDepartment of Rheumatology, King Fahd Hospital, Al Madinah AlMunawarah, Saudi Arabia.
King Fahad Hospital Jeddah · SATaibah University · SAAssiut University · EG

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Taibah University 4121/434
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Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible role of vitamin K homologs as potential biomarkers for disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In this study, 42 patients with RA and 40 healthy controls were enrolled. Serum levels of vitamin K homologs were measured using a high-performance liquid chromatography-fluorescence method. Different biochemical and clinical markers for disease activity were measured and correlated with serum levels of vitamin K homologs. There were no significant differences between RA patients and healthy subjects in demographic data. Patients with RA showed significantly higher levels of biochemical markers compared with healthy subjects (p < 0.001). These markers included rheumatoid factor (RF), anticyclic citrullinated polypeptide (anti-CCP), undercarboxylated osteocalcin (ucOC), matrix metalloproteinase (MMP-3), C-reactive protein (CRP), and disease activity score assessing 28 joints with erythrocyte sedimentation rate (DAS28-ESR). In addition, serum levels of vitamin K homologs were reduced in RA patients, and the levels of menaquinone-4 (MK-4) and menaquinone-7 (MK-7) were moderately to strongly inversely correlated with the clinical articular features in RA patients, whereas phylloquinone (PK) levels were weakly correlated. Serum levels of MK-4, MK-7 and PK were strongly inversely correlated with ucOC, MMP-3 and DAS28-ESR in RA patients. In contrast, serum levels of MK-4, MK-7 and PK were weakly correlated with CRP, RF and anti-CCP. These results suggest that serum levels of vitamin K homologs may be considered as potential biomarkers for disease activity. In addition, the results confirm the role of vitamin K deficiency in the etiology of RA.

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BiomarkersDAS28-ESRMatrix metalloproteinaseRheumatoid arthritisVitamin K homologs

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