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Báo cáo y học: " Cigarette smoking associates with body weight and muscle mass of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional, observational study"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học General Psychiatry cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Cigarette smoking associates with body weight and muscle mass of patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional, observational study. | Available online http arthritis-research.eom content 10 3 R59 Open Access Research article Cigarette smoking associates with body weight and muscle mass of patients with rheumatoid arthritis a cross-sectional observational study Antonios Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou1 2 3 Giorgos S Metsios1 2 3 Vasileios F Panoulas3 Karen MJ Douglas3 Alan M Nevill1 2 Athanasios Z Jamurtas4 5 Marina Kita3 Yiannis Koutedakis1 4 5 and George D Kitas2 3 6 1School of Sport Performing Arts Leisure Wolverhampton University Gorway Road Walsall WS1 3BD West Midlands UK 2Research Institute in Healthcare Science University of Wolverhampton Wulfruna Street Wolverhampton WV1 1LY West Midlands UK 3Department of Rheumatology Dudley Group of Hospitals NHS Trust Russell s Hall Hospital Pensnett Road Dudley DY1 2HQ West Midlands UK 4Department of Sport and Exercise Science University of Thessaly Trikala-Karyes Road Trikala 421 00 Greece institute of Human Performance Rehabilitation Trikala-Karyes Road Trikala 42100 Greece 6ARC Epidemiology Unit University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PT UK Corresponding author Antonios Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou as@wlv.ac.uk Received 20 Nov 2007 Revisions requested 7 Jan 2008 Revisions received 7 Mar 2008 Accepted 20 May 2008 Published 20 May 2008 Arthritis Research Therapy 2008 10 R59 doi 10.1186 ar2429 This article is online at http arthritis-research.com content 10 3 R59 2008 Stavropoulos-Kalinoglou et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction Rheumatoid arthritis RA is associated with altered metabolism leading to muscle wasting. In the general population cigarette smoking is known to affect body composition by reducing fat and inhibiting muscle synthesis. Even though smoking has been