Violetta Dubovyk, Georgios K Vasileiadis, Tahzeeb Fatima, Yuan Zhang, Meliha Crnkic Kapetanovic, Alf Kastbom, Milad Rizk, Annika Söderbergh, Sizheng Steven Zhao, Ronald F van Vollenhoven, Merete Lund Hetland, Espen A Haavardsholm, Dan Nordström, Michael T Nurmohamed, Bjorn Gudbjornsson, Jon Lampa, Mikkel Østergaard, Marte Schrumpf Heiberg, Tuulikki Sokka-Isler, Gerdur Gröndal, Kristina Lend, Kim Hørslev-Petersen, Till Uhlig, Anna Rudin, Cristina Maglio
OBJECTIVE: This report from the NORD-STAR (Nordic Rheumatic Diseases Strategy Trials and Registries) trial aimed to determine if obesity is associated with response to conventional and biological antirheumatic treatment in early rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS: This report included 793 participants with untreated early RA from the randomised, longitudinal NORD-STAR trial, all of whom had their body mass index (BMI) assessed at baseline. Obesity was defined as BMI ≥30 kg/m2 ...
April 4, 2024: RMD Open