SynthesisSingapore medical journal2019
A systematic review of the association of obesity with the outcomes of inflammatory rheumatic diseases.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Association of body mass index on disease activity in axial spondyloarthritis: systematic review and meta-analysis.RMD open · 2020Pooled it
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- Association between body mass index and palindromic rheumatism risk and outcomes: a case-control study.Clinical rheumatology · 2026Article
- Cardiovascular health worsening in patients with autoimmune rheumatological diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic.Clinical rheumatology · 2023Review
- Body Mass Index Profile of Adult Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease in a Multicenter Study in Northeastern Brazil.Clinical and experimental gastroenterology · 2023Article
- Observational
- Baseline predictors of remission, pain and fatigue in rheumatoid arthritis: the TITRATE trial.Arthritis research & therapy · 2021Article
- Culturing Articular Cartilage Explants in the Presence of Autologous Adipose Tissue Modifies Their Inflammatory Response to Lipopolysaccharide.Mediators of inflammation · 2020Article
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Abstract
This was a systematic review of the literature on the association between obesity and the outcome of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. We conducted a literature search using PubMed®, Embase and PsycINFO®. Articles were classified into three categories based on the effects of obesity on the outcomes of inflammatory rheumatic diseases. The subject population, country, type of studies, number of patients, measurement of obesity and outcomes assessed were presented. Quality was appraised using Kmet et al's criteria. 4,331 articles were screened and 60 were relevant to the objective. Obesity had a negative, positive and neutral association with outcomes of inflammatory rheumatic diseases in 38 (63.3%) studies with 57,612 subjects, 11 (18.3%) studies with 3,866 subjects, and 11 (18.3%) studies with 3,834 subjects, respectively. In most studies, the disease population had been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Tumour necrosis factor-α inhibitors were mostly associated with negative outcomes. More studies examining subjects outside Europe and North America and diseases other than RA are warranted.
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