ArticleActa Cardiologica Sinica2017
Impaired Left Ventricular Diastolic Functions and Thickened Epicardial Adipose Tissue in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients is Correlated with DAS-28 Score.
Article in Acta Cardiologica Sinica, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- A narrative review of epicardial adipose tissue as a predictor of cardiometabolic risk in rheumatoid arthritis patients.Annals of translational medicine · 2025Review
- Increased epicardial adipose tissue thickness as a sign of subclinical atherosclerosis in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and ıts relationship with disease activity ındices.Internal and emergency medicine · 2024Article
- Epicardial adipose tissue in patients with systemic sclerosis.European heart journal. Imaging methods and practice · 2023Article
- The Association Between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Atrial Fibrillation: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Management.International journal of general medicine · 2023Review
- Perivascular adipose tissue in autoimmune rheumatic diseases.Pharmacological research · 2022Review
- Serum progranulin level is associated with disease activity following orthopedic surgery in rheumatoid arthritis patients.The Journal of international medical research · 2020Article
- Characterization of the inflammatory-metabolic phenotype of heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction: a hypothesis to explain influence of sex on the evolution and potential treatment of the disease.European journal of heart failure · 2020Review
- Link Between Synovial and Myocardial Inflammation: Conceptual Framework to Explain the Pathogenesis of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction in Patients with Systemic Rheumatic Diseases.Cardiac failure review · 2020Review
- Potential Role of Atrial Myopathy in the Pathogenesis of Stroke in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Psoriasis: A Conceptual Framework and Implications for Prophylaxis.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2020Review
- Association of Epicardial Adipose Tissue Thickness with Extent and Complexity of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome.Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2019Article
- Clinical significance of serum calprotectin level for the disease activity in active rheumatoid arthritis with normal C-reactive protein.International journal of clinical and experimental pathology · 2019Article
- Epicardial Fat Thickness is Associated with Abnormal Left Ventricle Geometry in Newly Diagnosed Hypertension.Acta Cardiologica Sinica · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundRheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease that is known to be associated with high cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. In this study, we aimed to demonstrate whether RA disease activity reflected with disease activity score-28 (DAS-28) had an impact on left ventricular diastolic functions and epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness in RA patients with no traditional CV risk factors.
methodsIn this retrospective study, 41 patients newly diagnosed with RA were included. In addition to medical history, detailed physical examination findings and laboratory tests, left ventricular systolic and diastolic functions, chamber dimensions, and EAT thickness were evaluated with transthoracic echocardiography in the study population.
resultsThis study included 41 subjects with a median age of 45 years (38.00-55.50), of which 29.27% were male. In the binomial logistic regression analysis, DAS-28 score was found to be an independent associate of diastolic dysfunction, Additionally, DAS-28 was found to be independently associated with EAT thickness.
conclusionsPatients with high DAS-28 score should be evaluated thoroughly for CV disease, and patients should undergo advanced diagnostic studies as required and receive appropriate treatment.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.