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ReviewRheumatology and therapy2020

Obesity and Psoriatic Arthritis: A Narrative Review.

Anand Kumthekar, Alexis Ogdie

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Review in Rheumatology and therapy, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
69citing papers in PubMed
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

69 citing papers in PubMed, 107 citations in OpenAlex.

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9 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anand KumthekarMontefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. anakumth@montefiore.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7374-5837
Alexis OgdieUniversity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Refining Outcome Measurement in Psoriatic Arthritis: Preparation for Pragmatic TrialsR01AR072363 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI OGDIE, ALEXIS R. · 2017 to 2019
$709k
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR072363
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) have a higher burden of cardio-metabolic comorbidities like obesity, hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease compared to the general population. Adipose tissue is thought to promote a chronic low grade inflammatory state through inflammatory mediators like tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), interleukin-6 (IL-6), leptin, and adiponectin. A higher body mass index (BMI) is a risk factor for development of PsA and affects disease activity and response to therapy including both disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi). Obesity has an impact on the morbidity in PsA, particularly cardiovascular and/or metabolic. Patients with PsA have a higher cardiovascular risk and obesity may have an additive impact on morbidity and mortality. This review explores the relationship between obesity and PsA.

Indexed as

Body mass index (BMI)Cardiovascular riskObesityPsoriatic arthritis (PsA)

Identifiers

PMID32495313
PMCPMC7410935
OpenAlexW3030996027

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